Pigs heads

Posted in Old blogger by Twenty Major on October 28th, 2004

Imagine the scene. You’re driving to work. You look ahead of you and see a pig’s head on a stake. Frightening. But don’t worry, it’s just an advertisement for a performance of Lord of the Flies, the William Goldman novel about kids stranded on an island who go pig hunting then turn into savages who try and kill each other, like Blackrock College students coming out of Annabels.

It’s certainly an interesting way to promote the play and to be honest I’m all for it. It’s different. It gets people talking and we should do more stuff like this. In an age when beheadings are de riguer and we see dead bodies from crazy wars on the news every day why should anyone be offended by the head of an animal most of the people in Ireland devour on a daily basis?

I expect other theatre groups to follow suit. Romeo and Juliet could be promoted by having an open tomb with the dead bodies of two lovestruck teenagers, let’s do Othello with a Nigerian immigrant and Michael McDowell as Iago, we could have an inner city family on a reality TV show thinking they’re about to win the lottery in Juno and the Paycock style (and wouldn’t Eamon Dunphy make a most excellent Joxer?) while valuable promotion for Dublin’s new light rail system could be made by painting naked pictures of beautiful women on the side of the trams for ‘A LUAS car named desire’.

Once my term as President is over (I’ll give auld Mary another seven years before I make my move) I might become a marketing genius.