Giles Thomas

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

Three Men In A Boat To Set Sail Again

Touring
The Original Theatre Company present Three Men In a Boat

Following highly successful tours in 2012 and most recently in 2014, which was the 125th anniversary year of the publication of Jerome K Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat, producers The Original Theatre Company and Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds will once again be touring Craig Gilbert’s stage adaptation of this quintessentially British comedy in 2015, opening at the Cambridge Arts Theatre on 21 January. In an attempt to escape the stresses of city life, three friends, J, Harris and George, accompanied by their faithful canine companion Montmorency, decide to take to the river in order to relax and rejuvenate. The holiday, however, quickly unravels and descends into chaos. Originally intended as a guide to boating on the Thames, Jerome’s ripping yarn of youthful friendship, mischief and folly celebrates the very essence of Britishness. In Craig Gilbert’s production, this classic tale of boating misadventure comes complete with a working pub, … Read more