Pig Heart Boy

Pig Heart Boy

About Pig Heart Boy

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‘Hilarious, uplifting, profound’ WhatsOnStage

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‘A brilliant page to stage adaptation’ Afridiziak

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'A well-judged, beautiful looking stage adaptation' Time Out

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‘Hilariously funny, intelligent and thought-provoking’ Everything Theatre

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‘Pinnock’s adaptation excels’ The Stage

Cameron is thirteen, and all he wants is to be normal – have friends, go to school, and dive to the bottom of his local swimming pool. But he desperately needs a heart transplant and time is running out. When he’s finally offered a new heart, Cameron must choose how far he’ll go to get his life back.

From the multi award-winning writer Malorie Blackman OBE, author of Noughts and Crosses, this brilliant novel is brought to life in a brand-new adaptation by Winsome Pinnock, and is directed by Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu in a Unicorn co-production with Sheffield Theatres and Children’s Theatre Partnership.

This show contains flashing lights.

Pig-Heart Boy © Malorie Blackman was first published by Doubleday in 1997, and now Corgi Books, both imprints of Penguin Random House.

Pig Heart Boy will go on a nationwide tour following its run at the Unicorn until June 2025 . You can find more information and tour dates here.

This show contains flashing lights.

TICKET INFO

Sun 26 Jan – Sat 22 Feb

Under 18s £8.50 - £18.50 / Adults £10.50 - £26.50

Previews: Under 18s from £8.50 / Adults from £10.50


Production Photos

Cast

  • Christine During

    Cathy/Julie
  • Rhys Lanahan

    Male Understudy
  • Tré Medley

    Dr Bryce/Andrew
  • Christina Ngoyi

    Marilyn/Ehrlich/Presenter
  • Chia Phoenix

    Nan/Trudy/Mrs Stewart/LEPAR Lady/Officer
  • Olivia Williams Freeman

    Female Understudy
  • Immanuel Yeboah

    Cameron
  • Akil Young

    Mike/Rashid

Creative Team

  • Based on the novel by Malorie Blackman
  • Adapted by Winsome Pinnock
  • Director Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu
  • Designer Paul Wills
  • Lighting Designer Andrew Exeter
  • Sound Designer & Composer XANA
  • Movement Director DK Fashola
  • Video Designer Jack Baxter
  • Casting Director Nadine Rennie CDG
  • Assistant Director Amber Sinclair-Case
  • Assistant Lighting Designer Susie Yi Su
  • Prop Supervisor Lily Mollgaard
  • WHAM Supervisor Teváe Humphrey
  • Dialect Coach Hazel Holder
  • Head of Wardrobe Kathryn Waters
  • Dresser Luke Abbott
  • Sound No 1 Vanessa Garber
  • Creative Associates Ella, Scarlett, Howard, Thandiwe, Suri, Jayvaughn, Jayda, Rhema, Amelia, Tolani, Sonja