Disco Pigs & Sucking Dublin (NHB Modern Plays)

Disco Pigs is the award-winning play about two warped teenagers that confirmed Enda Walsh's place in the forefront of young Irish dramatists and was filmed in 2001 with Cillian Murphy and Elaine Cassidy.Stewart Parker AwardGeorge Devine AwardPig and Runt are two 17-year-olds who share everything: birthday, language, worldview – and that moment when pop songs and life-changing orgasms flash by and last forever.'offers timely insights into teenage alienation… impressive' –

The Stage'Poignantly funny, full of sound and movement, this electric two-hander is phenomenal' –

Irish Sunday Times'Does for Cork kids what Irvine Welsh's

Trainspotting did for young Scots' –

Daily Telegraph'a small-scale modern classic' –

Time OutAlso published in this volume is

Sucking Dublin, a fierce and uncompromising short play about a group of five individuals tormented by a rape in a claustrophobic, drug-infested Dublin.'a unique talent, and it's a struggle not to use the G-word to describe the writing' –

Examiner