Even Voldemort may be no match for that scariest of threats: a hormonal teenage boy. Even as she serves as Pig’s main catalyst and egger-on, her Runt comes to recognize the pitfalls of her codependent relationship and the possibilities of a larger world beyond Cork.īy that time, though, it may be too late for Runt to make a clean break. Lynch, meanwhile, brings some of the mooniness she displayed playing Luna Lovegood on the big screen.
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Campbell is like an Energizer bunny of kinetic energy, running and dancing about a stage that is mostly spare but for the occasionally lulling presence of a TV set. The Burgess influence is also on display in Walsh’s depiction of the toxicity of young men and the propensity of Pig toward sudden (and escalating) acts of violence.
The pair share private nicknames - Lynch is Runt and Campbell is Pig - and have spent so much time together that they finish each other’s sentences, often in a kind of private language that suggests Walsh read Anthony Burgess’ “A Clockwork Orange” an awful lot as a young man.Īlso Read: 'Mankind' Theater Review: Dystopian Drama Touts Women's Rights - With All-Male Cast Irish playwright Enda Walsh burst on the theater scene with his 1997 one-act two-hander “Disco Pigs,” which now enjoys a propulsive revival at Off Broadway’s Irish Repertory Theatre.Įvanna Lynch (Luna Lovegood of the “Harry Potter” films) and Colin Campbell, reprising their roles from a London production last year, play two 17-year-olds who were born on the same day in the same hospital in the Irish city of Cork - and who have grown up together as quasi-twins.
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