My poster design for the play Disco Pigs by JDP-Yugoslav Drama Theater in Belgrade, Serbia.
Pig and Runt were born at the same hospital at nearly the same time and grew up next door to each other. They live in their own world and rarely interact with others; when they do, it's mostly to express their hostility toward them. Their relationship, while very intense and unhealthy, remains platonic until just before their 17th birthday.
Around this time, Runt catches and reciprocates the attention of another young man from their school, Marky, just as Pig develops romantic feelings for Runt. As their birthday draws closer, Pig becomes more volatile and violent, and his new feelings become obvious to Runt when he kisses her after a rampage at a nightclub. Runt does not know how to reject him, and they continue their friendship, though relations between them are markedly awkward. Their relationship finally raises concerns at their school. With the cooperation of her parents and Pig's single mother, Runt, considered the more adaptive of the two, is sent away to a boarding school.
On their 17th birthday, Pig arrives at Runt's school and asks her to leave with him, which she does. Elated at their reunion, the two eventually chance upon a nightclub called The Palace. There, Runt sees Marky again and dances with him. In a fit of jealous rage, Pig beats Marky until he dies. Runt, scared, runs away, and Pig stays next to the corpse of the young man whom he barbarically beat to death, discovering something completely new about himself: he likes blood.
Pig and Runt were born at the same hospital at nearly the same time and grew up next door to each other. They live in their own world and rarely interact with others; when they do, it's mostly to express their hostility toward them. Their relationship, while very intense and unhealthy, remains platonic until just before their 17th birthday.
Around this time, Runt catches and reciprocates the attention of another young man from their school, Marky, just as Pig develops romantic feelings for Runt. As their birthday draws closer, Pig becomes more volatile and violent, and his new feelings become obvious to Runt when he kisses her after a rampage at a nightclub. Runt does not know how to reject him, and they continue their friendship, though relations between them are markedly awkward. Their relationship finally raises concerns at their school. With the cooperation of her parents and Pig's single mother, Runt, considered the more adaptive of the two, is sent away to a boarding school.
On their 17th birthday, Pig arrives at Runt's school and asks her to leave with him, which she does. Elated at their reunion, the two eventually chance upon a nightclub called The Palace. There, Runt sees Marky again and dances with him. In a fit of jealous rage, Pig beats Marky until he dies. Runt, scared, runs away, and Pig stays next to the corpse of the young man whom he barbarically beat to death, discovering something completely new about himself: he likes blood.
