The Boy Who Kicked Pigs

The Boy Who Kicked Pigs

The Boy Who Kicked Pigs

The Boy Who Kicked Pigs

The Boy Who Kicked Pigs

Overview

13-year-old Robert Caligari is a nasty piece of work. But today is the day he gets his comeuppance. Today is the day he’s going to die.

When Robert kicks his sister’s beloved piggy bank Trevor out of the window, he sets in motion a chain of events that results in the unexpected demise of a local fishmonger. Having developed a taste for blood and sick to death of sneering imbecilic adults, Robert sets about becoming the real murderer he has always dreamed of being, all the while egged on by the newly-talking Trevor. Meanwhile, in the mind-numbingly boring offices of local paper The Kent Clarion, work experience student Philip Bottering wishes for something, anything, to report on – preferably a juicy disaster.

Based on the book by Doctor Who’s Tom Baker, this madly hilarious, frenetic scream of a show, which includes shark-mauling beachgoers, burning vicars, and even waltzing rats, is a multi-roling masterpiece that tells the gloriously grisly tale of one scoundrel’s attempt at infamy.


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Details

  • Genre: Adaptation (Literature)
  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Cast Attributes: Expandable Casting, Flexible Cast Size
  • Target Audience: Adult, Teen (Age 14-18)

Authors

Tom Baker

After God service, National Service and a spell in the Merchant Navy, Tom Baker became an actor. Widely experienced in film, theatre and television, he is most well known, in seventy-four countries, for his portrayal of Doctor Who. Tom Baker's well loved novel THE BOY WHO KIC ...

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Natasha Hodgson

Natasha Hodgson is an award-winning writer-performer and co-writer and star of Operation Mincemeat, which won Best New Musical at the 2024 Olivier Awards and was nominated for Best Musical at the Tony Awards 2025. She was also nominated for Best Actress in a Musical at the Ol ...

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Zoë Roberts

Zoë Roberts is an award-winning writer-performer and cowriter and star of Operation Mincemeat, which won Best New Musical at the 2024 Olivier Awards and was nominated for three Tony Awards including Best Musical in 2025. She was also nominated for Best Supporting Actress in a ...

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David Cumming

David Cumming  is a member of SpitLip and a co-writer of Operation Mincemeat. An Olivier-award-winning, triple Tony-nominated writer/actor/composer, he originated the role of Charles Cholmondeley in the London Fringe, West End and Broadway productions, which also saw him nomi ...

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