AustLit

'‘’Yeah you’ve got rights. You’ve got a whole lot of rights. You know what you haven’t got?’’

'One Woman. Four Men. She could be with all of them; at twenty-two on a date on the Gold Coast, at thirty-one moving into an apartment in Albert Park, or at forty, happily married with a nine-year-old son living in Campsie. Four very different worlds share an identical space, our homes.

'King of Pigs throws us into a blistering series of reality pockets. Each glimpse we get provides a momentary view of a vast panoramic lie. It’s a lie every man tells himself privately but every woman lives with publicly.

'A direct response to the nature of power and the way men licence themselves to abuse it.' (Production summary)

'A country highway. A greasy takeaway joint. Two sisters. One of them left, one stayed behind. One chose chaos, the other control. One chose sex, the other - food. Enter Hakan Leventoglu, aka Hassan the Beautiful.

'Kate Champion is riding the wave of a decade of brilliant work across theatre, opera and dance, notably with her celebrated company Force Majeure.Steve Rodgers is a theatrical marvel who writes and acts with equal aplomb. Their work meets here within the classic architecture of great drama: feuding sisters, a charming man and the possibility of transformation.

'The sisters battle it out, trying to make sense of who they were, who they are and whether they can ever allow each other to be something else.' (Source: Belvoir St Theatre website)