Pigs and Dogs

Caryl Churchill

• Publisher: Nick Hern Books
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN: 9781780018034
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: British Drama
• Index: Literature

'You western-backed goats,
They forced us into slavery and killed millions.
Now they want us to accept the sinfulness of homos.
It shall not work.'

In 2014, Uganda passed an Anti-Homosexuality Act. This short, startling play looks at what lies behind it.

Caryl Churchill's Pigs and Dogs premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2016, in a production directed by Dominic Cooke.

–	Somebody says
–	President of Gambia
–	We will fight these vermins the way we fight malaria-bearing mosquitoes.
–	Somebody says
–	President Mugabe
–	If dogs and pigs don’t do it why must human beings?
–	Somebody posts
–	You western-backed goats. They forced us into slavery and killed millions. Now they want to downplay the sinfulness of homo. It shall not work.
–	Somebody says
–	Zuma, South Africa
–	When I was growing up an ungqingili would not have stood before me. I would knock him out.
–	Uganda. Anti Homosexuality Act 2014. Death penalty. Later amended to life imprisonment.
–	I know I shouldn’t have sent him to that white school.
–	Somebody says
–	Ethics Minister in Uganda
–	If I kissed a man I think I should die, I could not exist. It is inhuman. Just imagine Eating your own faeces.
–	Newspaper says
–	Two hundred top homosexuals.
–	Names, pictures.
–	Hang them.
–	Museveni says
–	President of Uganda
–	Ugandan independence in the face of western pressure.
–	Mugabe says
–	President of Zimbabwe
–	We have our own culture.
–	Somebody says
–	in America
–	member of a rap group
–	There is no word in any African language that describes homosexual.
–	But
–	sagoda never marry and wear skirts
–	ashtime dress like women and do women’s work
–	mumenke is a man-woman
–	wasagu is a lesbian
–	yan daudu
–	umukonotsi
–	m’zili
–	tongo
–	kitesha
–	chibadi
–	ovashangi
–	wobo
–	If I had been a man I could have taken a wife and begat children. If I had been a woman I could have taken a husband and borne children. But I am neither. I am wobo.
–	Somebody says
–	Americ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Contents
• Original Production
• Characters
• Pigs and Dogs
• About the Author
• Copyright