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Your support makes all the difference.The play that took the Edinburgh Festival by storm last year finally arrives in the West End today. Disco Pigs, Enda Walsh's exuberantly performed tale of a pair of teenagers out on the razzle-dazzle in Pork City - the fictional twin of Walsh's native Cork - is as beguiling as it is baffling. Pig (Cillian Murphy) and Runt (Eileen Walsh) communicate in their own oinky baby language and dream of a Tamworth Two-style escape from the deadly adult world that awaits them.
Arts Theatre, Great Newport St, London, WC2 (0171-836 2132) 8pm
The Playhouse has struck gold with Steve Brown and Justin Greene's Spend, Spend, Spend!, a musical based on the life of Viv Nicholson, the Castleford housewife who honoured her pledge to "spend, spend, spend" after she won the first Pools mega-jackpot in 1962. It might be a heavy-handed cautionary tale for these Lottery-crazed times, but the cracking tunes and cheeky lyrics pay due homage to the complexities of a woman who dared to live for the day.
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds (0113-213 7700) 7.30pm
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