The Young Vic revives Disco Pigs, Enda Walsh’s furious, funny and violent dash through a teenage friendship put to the test.

Pig and Runt are soul mates. Born seconds apart in the same hospital they are inseparable with an almost supernatural understanding. As partners in crime, they also share an appetite for drunkenness, recklessness, adventure and destruction. But on the eve of their 17th birthday it is an appetite for sex that threatens to tear them apart.

Disco Pigs is directed by the 2011 JMK Young Director Award winner Cathal Cleary, who has previously worked as an assistance director on productions including Roald Dahl’s Twisted Tales at the Lyric Hammersmith and The Beauty Queen Of Leenane, which was staged at the Young Vic.

Disco Pigs playwright Walsh’s other plays include The Walworth Farce, The New Electric Ballroom and Penelope.

Disco Pigs won George Devine Award when it was first staged in 1997.

For more about Disco Pigs at the Young Vic read the First Night Feature.