Pig Heart Boy by Malorie Blackman
26 Jan – 22 Feb 2025

Adapted by Winsome Pinnock
Unicorn Theatre

 

Pig Heart Boy, Unicorn Theatre
Pig Heart Boy, Unicorn Theatre

Is it better to have a pig’s heart that works … than a human heart that doesn’t?

Cameron is 13, and all he wants is to be normal – have friends, go to school, and dive to the bottom of his local swimming pool. But he desperately needs a heart transplant and time is running out. When he’s finally offered a new heart, Cameron must choose how far he’ll go to get his life back.

From the multi award-winning writer Malorie Blackman OBE, author of Noughts and Crosses, this brilliant novel is brought to life in a brand-new adaptation by Winsome Pinnock, and is directed by Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu (watch interview on YouTube) in a Unicorn co-production with Sheffield Theatres and Children’s Theatre Partnership.

Pig-Heart Boy © Malorie Blackman was first published by Doubleday in 1997, and now Corgi Books, both imprints of Penguin Random House.