The Long Pigs – Nicci Wilks

Long Pigs 1

“Superior physical performance, sharp direction, outrageous humour and intelligent design make this a dark-hearted jewel.”
ACameron Woodhead, THE AGE

Long Pigs 2

“It’s not often in the theatre that you suddenly realise you are in the presence of creative genius”
Geoffrey Williams, STAGE WHISPERS

Long pigs 3

“The Long Pigs is a precise and witty, mimed sideshow ride like no other, a surreal and funny exploration of the scary clowns of nightmares.”
Liza Dezfouli, ARTS HUB

Long Pigs 4

“The Long Pigs is magnificent theatre. See it before it disappears overseas to be, I predict unreservedly, a sensational hit”
Geoffrey Williams, STAGE WHISPERS

The Long Pigs is a cruel joke. Its content includes references to cannibalism, murder, vivisection and sex; but its form is a remix of conventional, highly approachable theatrical forms amidst a murky soup of mutual distrust and suspicion. In the best tradition of all good outlaw stories, in such an environment the gang ultimately turns on itself in a fatally destructive climax. This tension corners the audience in an uncomfortable bargain, where familiar and friendly comic patterns smuggle nasty themes into their consciousness, trapping them into complicity with the performers’ most horrible actions.

The Long Pigs is genuinely funny – it invests in classic comic forms, extensive classic training in circus and clowning and ultimately it’s as much Three Stooges as it is Jean Genet. The Long Pigs has opened the box of clown from the wrong end. It’s definitely no children’s party.

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Nominated for three Green Room Awards

Nomination – 2014 Green Room Award for Direction
Nomination – 2014 Green Room Award for Ensemble
Nomination – 2014 Green Room Award for Set & Costume Design

Winner Green Room Award 2024

Best Ensemble, Independent Theatre

Seasons

Melbourne Fortyfive Downstairs premiere season 2014
Tasmanian Circus Festival
Sydney Festival – Seymour Centre 2014
APAM – Brisbane 2016
Adelaide Fringe Festival – Tandanya Theatre 2019
Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh Fringe 2019
2022 Brisbane Circus Festival
Theatre Works, Melbourne 2023
Borderville Festival, Albury 2023

Credits

Clare Bartholomew – Performer, Co-creator
Nicci Wilks – Performer, Co-creator
Derek Ives-Plunkett – Co-creator and original performer
Mozes Mozes – Performer
Susie Dee – Director
Anna Tregloan – Designer
Jethro Woodward – Sound Designer
Andy Turner – Lighting Designer

Superior physical performance, sharp direction, outrageous humour and intelligent design make this a dark-hearted jewel
Cameron Woodhead, THE AGE

The Long Pigs is juvenile, blasphemous and almost completely inexplicable. But it is probably the most engrossing and satisfying work of physical theatre I’ve seen in the better part of a decade: strange and terrific indeed.
Chris Boyd, THE AUSTRALIAN

It’s not often in the theatre that you suddenly realise you are in the presence of creative genius
Geoffrey Williams, STAGE WHISPERS

The Long Pigs is magnificent theatre. See it before it disappears overseas to be, I predict unreservedly, a sensational hit
Geoffrey Williams, STAGE WHISPERS

The Long Pigs is a dirty little masterpiece, and it’ll change the way you think about clowning. It might even go some of the way to curing your fears. Get your tickets before this clown car leaves town.
Byron Bache, THE HERALD SUN

The Long Pigs is a precise and witty, mimed sideshow ride like no other, a surreal and funny exploration of the scary clowns of nightmares.
Liza Dezfouli, ARTS HUB

This is excellent theatre: confident, original, meaty and funny, and this production offers us the space to reflect on our human capacity to find humour in suffering, lending depth to a very entertaining show.
Liza Dezfouli, ARTS HUB

…a dramatic and visual feast in which you’ll be totally enthralled
Rohan Shearn, ARTS REVIEW

…leave the kiddies at home, this ones firmly for the adults.
Rohan Shearn, ARTS REVIEW