Disco Pigs: Actors revealed for Thirtieth-anniversary revival of traditional Cork play

The 59-year-old Dubliner and his group spent a lot of the early a part of this yr sifting by way of about 150 self-tapes earlier than internet hosting face-to-face auditions in Cork, Dublin, and the UK. Finally, they’re capable of reveal the leads within the two-handed play: Scottish actor Séamus McLean Ross will tackle the function of Pig, whereas Co Clare actress Aoise Meaney is the brand new Runt.

The Dundee actor is the extra skilled of the 2, having popped up in such exhibits because the latest BBC reboot of Rebus, and he will even be showing reverse Isla Fisher and Colin Firth in forthcoming movie Bare. He’s additionally no stranger to the world of showbiz as his mother and father are Ricky Ross and Lorraine McIntosh of Scottish pop group Deacon Blue (Real Gone Kid, and so on).

Meaney is making her skilled stage debut on the Everyman, however has been performing since her faculty days in Co Clare, and is a latest graduate of the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama.

Preparations for the play step up a gear with rehearsals in September, and one of many key members of the manufacturing group might be vocal coach Irene O’Mara, who will information the duo by way of the peculiar dialogue of Walsh’s script, a form of mixture of Corkspeak and the Nadsat slang of A Clockwork Orange.

Walsh, who’s now primarily based within the UK and has since penned or directed quite a few main stage productions and movies – together with an upcoming film remake of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang – is delighted to sq. the circle with Disco Pigs.

“I love Cork and its people and it’s a real joy, and an absolute honour, to bring Disco Pigs back to the stage in the Everyman,” mentioned Walsh. “I hope I can repay Cork’s support of me when I was a younger playwright with a thumping new production. With Aoise Meaney and Séamus McLean Ross – I could not be more excited.”

 The Everyman’s inventive director Des Kennedy was the one who first prompt the anniversary revival of the play. “We’re thrilled that Enda is coming back to Cork to direct one of the most important plays in the Irish canon in the city where it all began,” said Kennedy. 

“Nobody knows these characters better than Enda and, after an extensive search, he has found two extraordinary young actors to be his Pig and Runt. We can’t wait to welcome Séamus and Aoise to the Everyman.”

• Disco Pigs runs on the Everyman, Cork, from October 31 to November 14. Bookings open now through everymancork.com