Elliot Griggs

REVIEW: Disco Pigs, Trafalgar Studios ✭✭✭✭

Off West End, Reviews
Evanna Lynch in Disco Pigs

  Disco Pigs Trafalgar Studios 18 July 2017 4 Stars Book Now The twentieth anniversary of Enda Walsh’s unique, hugely enjoyable and energetic play is given a high octane and loving production by Tara Finney Productions. Bonded as their mothers gave birth side by side, Sinead and Darren have renamed themselves Pig and Runt, and are desperate to escape their dull ‘Pork City’, have invented their own language and rituals and swagger round the stage and their environment. They live for nights out, the disco, the violence, they live for each other, but Runt’s wistfulness and dreams of escape are beginning to show up the cracks in their inter-dependent relationship. It culminates when they achieve entry into the best disco in town, and she catches a glimpse of a life she wants, one which doesn’t involve Pig and his violent jealousy. Here we have two wonderful performances. Colin Campbell is … Read more

Initial casting announced for Joe Orton’s Loot at Park Theatre

News, Off West End

The Park Theatre has announced that Calvin Demba, Sam Fremchum and Sinéad Matthews will lead the cast of the 50th-anniversary production of Joe Orton’s Loot when it opens at the Park Theatre on 17 August 2017. Winning the 1967 Evening Standard Award for Best Play Of the Year in 1967, Loot delighted and shocked audiences in equal measure. The production will star Calvin Demba (Evening Standard Emerging Talent Award nominee, The Red Lion, National), Sam Frenchum (Private Peaceful, Grantchester) and award-winning Sinéad Matthews (Mrs Elvsted in Hedda Gabler at the National Theatre). Further casting is to be announced. Loot is to be directed by Michael Fentiman, designed by Gabriella Slade, lighting design by Elliot Griggs, sound design by Max Pappenheim. Loot will play at the Park Theatre from 17 August – 24 September 2017. BOOK TICKETS FOR LOOT AT PARK THEATRE