THEME: The story of the life of two sisters on a isolated hog-raising farm
N° OF CHARACTERS: 2 (2 female)
N° OF ACTS: 10 scenes
TIME: The present
WRITTEN IN: 2001

SUMMARY:
Two sisters live a peaceful farmimg life on an isolated hog-raising farm. The older sister is fully devoted to the hogs and caring for her invalid father whom she locks up in a shed as punishment; while the younger sister constantly changes teachers who are supposed to help her in choosing a profession. The sisters regularly kidnap these instructors, take them to the farm, and when they prove to be unsuccessful, kill them and bury them in the garden. In the meantime, they sing their charming songs. The real problems arise when their paralysed father wants to attend his own birthday party; when one of the hogs falls ill; when the latest professor they have kidnapped becomes disobedient; and, finally, when the younger sister's parrot shows itself to be the greatest obstacle in what has, to date, been an idyllic rustic life. Under the pressure of all their problems, the sisters start to ask themselves whether a life of crime and unrestrained violence is at all worth it.

TOMISLAV ZAJEC (Zagreb, 1972) won 2nd prize in the Goran competition for young poets at the Goran's Spring festivities in 1994 and 1996. In the same year, 1996, he won the Zdravko Pucak prize for literature, awarded by the city of Karlovac, and the University of Zagreb Chancellor's Prize for his poetry collection Nathaniel's Diary. Three of his poetry collections have been published - Nathaniel's Diary, in the All of a Sudden As If in the Wilderness collection, with his co-authors Vlatko Grguric and Romano Simic (1996); North - the Golden Kick (1996); The Hole of His Name (2000), as well as his novel Room for Smashing (1998). He has written three drama texts: John Smith, Princess of Wales (1998), The Assassins (1999), and Hogs (2001). He won the University of Zagreb Chancellor's Prize for his John Smith,... in 1999. The play has been performed in Zagreb, Sarajevo, Glasgow and Bradford. His second play The Assassins, was staged by the &TD Theatre in 2001, and was awarded the Ministry of Culture's Marin Drzic award. It was listed in the review of Croatian literature 20 for 2000 and in Croatian Literature in Jerusalem.