Three Little Pigs (or Chronicles of the Building Site)

A building site. Three lives in motion. And a fairy tale that refuses to stay on the page.

Three construction workers arrive for another day on a building site in Britain. Site inductions, deadlines, hierarchies, banter and everyday absurdities unfold. At the edge of their world, a woman waits with a notebook, hoping to speak with the workers during their lunch break.

Somewhere, Mummy Pig reads to her three sons from a book called Chronicles of the Building Site. As she turns the pages, work, migration, family and ambition begin to collide.

Four performers move between multiple characters and three interwoven theatrical worlds. Combining contemporary writing, physical theatre, visual storytelling and humour, the play explores craftsmanship and pride, migration and family separation, masculinity, financial pressure, loneliness, mental wellbeing, identity, belonging and the idea of home.

As the worlds of the building site and the fairy tale overlap, who is imagining whom—and where does the fairy tale end?

Inspired by the world surrounding the construction industry, the play is entirely fictional and does not reproduce any individual testimony or biography.

Developed through Arcola Lab at Arcola Theatre.

Supported using public funding by Arts Council England.
Official Wellbeing Partner: Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity.

Written by Inna Cebotari
Directed by Sava Cebotari

Performed by Jordan Laidley, Andy Mandoiu, Eisa Latif and Inna Cebotari.

More information about the production:
https://kinthsquare.co.uk/productions/three-little-pigs 

Read about the origins of the production:
Who is the wolf in your life? Listening to the people behind the hard hat
An article by playwright Inna Cebotari in Safety Management, published by the British Safety Council.
https://www.britsafe.org/safety-management/2026/who-is-the-wolf-in-your-...

Thursday 12 November 2026 — 7:30pm
Friday 13 November 2026 — 7:30pm
Saturday 14 November 2026 — 3:00pm & 7:30pm