Julie McNamara - Pig Tales

Pig Tales

Written and performed by
Julie McNamara

Director - Jessica Higgs
Designer – Katherina Radeva
Lighting Designer - Crin Claxton
Visual Director – Maria Robinson
Visual Editor - Caglar Kimyoncu
Sound – Liv Elliot

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‘Her startling stage presence and earthy dialogue commands attention with every bite. Unnerving and yet utterly compassionate.’
Catrina McFie (Nerve)

‘A freshly subversive take on the idiocies of religion, the mental health system and gender fixity.’
Carole Woddis (What’s On in London)

‘The central jewel in this year’s (Feast) festival.’
Brett Allen-Bayes (dB Magazine, Australia)

Critics’ Choice
T2 & Sunday Telegraph

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Pig Tales - photo by Michele Martinoli
photo by Michele Martinoli

TOUR DATES

COURTYARD THEATRE - London
Thu 3rd Jan 08 - 7.45pm
** Fri 4th Jan 08 - 7:45pm **
Sat 5th Jan 08 - 7:45pm
Sun 6th Jan 08 - 4:00pm
There is no performance on Monday
Tue 8th Jan 08 - 7:45pm
Wed 9th Jan 08 - 7:45pm
Thu 10th Jan 08 - 7:45pm
Fri 11th Jan 08 - 7:45pm
Sat 12th Jan 08 - 7:45pm
** Sun 13th Jan 08 - 4:00pm **

** BSL Interpreted performance
Interpreter: Sam Mailes

£10 (£7 conc.)
Box Office: 0870 163 0717
www.seetickets.com
40 Pitfield Street, Hoxton, London N1 6EU

The story of a female child raised as a boy.

Pig’s warring Liverpool Irish family are haunted by the rigid teachings of the Catholic Church. Disappointed with their lot and dislocated from their roots, the family implodes with violence. Pig lures us into the chaos and confusion of adolescence set against the brutality of the Mental Health System. This extraordinary tale is told through raw humour, compassion and bare-faced cheek!

Pig Tales - photo by Lily Elms
photo by Lily Elms

The play is in one act with five scenes, using the nursery rhyme ‘This little pig went to market’ as its framework. It is a remarkable exploration of gender.

Pig Tales was commissioned by Jackson's Lane Theatre and Oval House Theatre, as the flagship of the Xposure Festival of Disability Arts in November 2002. Excerpts from the show were hailed as the highlight of the Dare to be Different conference in Cornwall in January 2003.

"Julie McNamara is a talented writer, actress and singer, effortlessly embodying the various characters needed to tell her story."
Theatreworld Internet Magazine

"...a frighteningly candid psychological casebook."
Time Out

"Critics Choice"
The Times

"With Lily Elms' cleverly abstract altar and carcass-dripping design, Maria Robinson's zippy video footage, superb lighting and Handel's Zadock the Priest...Higg's hour-long production is a delight, holding its disparate impulses in check with insouciant clarity."
What's On London

photo by Lily Elms

"As an actress she gives her all...as a writer she is brutally honest. As a person she is out there putting two fingers up to anyone who doesn't want to hear the truth...Not only is Pig Tales wonderfully performed, it is also a great technical feat achieved with great direction and a faultless team behind the scenes."
Southwark News

"Pig Tales brought alive the reality of how disabling society is towards individuals who are not wholly male or wholly female. The inhumanity of society's attempts to control any variation are expressed with wit and imagination in this compelling and engaging production."
DAIL Magazine

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