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translation by Peter Papiewski

cast: Roma Gąsiorowska, Rafał Maćkowiak

Born on the same day, in the same hospital in Pork, almost at the same moment, almost inseparable from the moment they were born, using their own, unique language code, emotionally dependant on each other, accepting only one another and nobody else, rebellious, constantly in search of strong emotions in self-induced fuss, vulgar yet sensitive, amateurs of trans pop, cheap wine and fast-food - these are the raging seventeen year old Disco Pigs characters - Świniak and Prosiak.
The most popular drama by Enda Walsh, born in 1967 in Dublin, is neither a realistic picture of the present teenage generation nor the social presentation of a dysfunctional relationship. Creating another diagnosis of the contemporary world, a metaphor of chaos and degeneration of the value system was probably not the author's ambition, either. But it is a well-told story. Interesting, because presented by the characters themselves, exempt from the author's evaluation, as well as his compassion or irony.
For the main characters the world limits to themselves. All the other people appearing in their lives exist only in reported stories or in staged memories, when they play other characters. We're allowed into their intimate world, where everything is realistic and contractual at the same time, where dreams of the Disco Palace and real or imaginary situations from their past coexist in drama's present - two days, when the characters celebrate their 17th birthday.
The mysterious and grim reality emerging again and again by the act of creation eventually turns out to be hard to accept for Prosiak, when she grows up and realizes all its limitations. But is the escape possible, when previous life, though based on illusion, is so unique and exciting?
Enda Walsh is the Artistic Director of Corcadorca Theatre in Cork, where Disco Pigs were staged for the first time in 1996. For the play the author was awarded with The Best Fringe Production Award during Festival in Dublin and also with George Devine Award.
Walsh wrote his next play Sucking Dublin for Dublin Abbey Theatre in 1997. He is also the author of dramas Misterman and Bedbound which received enthusiastic reviews at the Festival in Edinburgh.
"Disco Pigs" presented on several stages in Europe were also adapted by the author for a movie directed in 2000 by Kirsten Sheridan.

premiered: 18 October 2003
approximate running time: 1 hour (no intermission)
Rehearsal Room TR, STOLARNIA