How would you react if you were suddenly bestowed with acute self-awareness and full comprehension of the workings of the world around you? You observe yourself objectively and watch as you undertake all the pleasant, despicable, mundane, decent and perverse things that make up your life. You can now see your past clearly and recognise how you arrived at this place and time. You can extrapolate into the future and forecast how your life will develop and play out if it remains on its current course. Not only that, you can also appreciate why your life has developed as it has and why it will play out in that particular way - unless you change things. You see how little control you have and how your life is restricted and dictated by things you hadn't appreciated. You understand how invisible bonds such as tradition, convention and expectation have limited the options open to you and, far worse, you see the lies told by institutions, organisations and the media, and business, religious and political leaders; lies that they use to convince us that everything is as it is for sound reasons that shouldn't be questioned or challenged. You see how moral and ethical standards are surreptitiously altered in order to ensure the majority of the populace are compliant and acquiescent. You see how passive people have become in the face of this deluge of disinformation and propaganda. And you see the impact of this: the dreadful unfairness of things we are told are actually fair, the inequality that is fostered and maintained by those who benefit from it, the people who, like you, live the life they have been induced to live by those who actually live completely differently. Suddenly, you see all of this. How would you react? Pig Theorem explores the initial response of a family of five who are faced with all these revelations. As they struggle to make sense of their new awareness, they become angry, both at themselves and the disingenuous world around them. Instinctively, they begin to hit out. Inevitably they are arrested and put on trial. Pig Theorem begins by recreating this trial. Of course, this all begs other questions: Who was responsible for the changes in these people? What was the instrument used to change them? and What would happen if more and more people are changed in the same way? Pig Theorem attempts to answer these questions. The answers are not always as you might expect. In this new sharply defined kaleidoscopic world, the conscious and unconscious become intertwined and reality becomes confused with the abstract and surreal. Read Pig Theorem and make up your own mind.
