Pig [Swamp] songs (poetry)
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The leaves fall, or is it snow? Ralph is stuck in a swamp on the enemy's wasteland. He sings a Pig Song or two.
"It's powerful. Certainly moving, it seems to have the memories of a century in it, with something important to say. I know for sure it will stay in my mind."
— Edward Bond, playwright
“Pig [Swamp] Songs is a work which listens to the world without striving neurotically after character and plot. It eludes definition.
Rooney's writing is in a vein where as much is received as projected. He doesn't shout at you. He engages only with love, loss, death and the possibility of the infinite.
The Pig Songs are the echo we crave, proof of our connectedness to a universe that exists beyond the fragile, disposable bodies in which we can seem helplessly enclosed. They are the mark, the stain, the rhythm of our common blood, of family, friends, of love.”
— from the introduction by Simon Usher
where nothing arrives (PLay)
“I'm a big believer in quiet minds.”
In a room of an un-finished new build in Kensal Rise, Chimp and Knuckle are passing the dark hours before dawn. As they consider the future, the two men confront and console one another whilst addressing some of the universal doubts and fears of the human condition; masculinity, identity and boredom. No holds are barred as they wrestle to arrive at a better and more honest knowledge and understanding of themselves and each other.
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