The Same

Cast: 2f

Staging: Minimal requirements

Amateur rights performance fee: £60 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

Published in volume Medicine & The Same: two plays
First Staged:
Corcadorca Theatre Company, Cork, 2017

The Same

By Enda Walsh
Published in volume Medicine & The Same: two plays
  • Best Play, Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards - 2017

Two women called Lisa meet in a psychiatric institution, where each tells their story about moving to a new city and crossing paths with one another.

Enda Walsh's play The Same was first produced by Corcadorca Theatre Company at the Old Cork Prison, Cork, in February 2017, and subsequently as part of the Galway International Arts Festival at Galway Airport in July 2019. It won The Irish Times Irish Theatre Award for Best Play.

The Same is published in the volume Medicine & The Same: two plays.

Press Quotes

'Riveting... an undeniable sense of an event'

Guardian

'A compelling questioning of the provenance of memory'

Irish Times

Cast: 2f

Staging:Minimal requirements

Amateur rights performance fee: £60 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

Published in volume Medicine & The Same: two plays

Also by Enda Walsh:

The New Electric Ballroom
The Ginger Ale Boy
Once: The Musical
Enda Walsh Plays: One
Enda Walsh Plays: Two
Medicine & The Same: two plays
Roald Dahl's The Twits
Lazarus: The Complete Book and Lyrics
Disco Pigs & Sucking Dublin
Ballyturk
misterman (2001 edition)
bedbound & misterman: two plays
Disco Pigs
The Small Things
The Walworth Farce
Medicine
My Friend Duplicity
Arlington
Misterman
A Girl's Bedroom
Kitchen
Penelope
Lynndie's Gotta Gun
Delirium
Chatroom
How These Desperate Men Talk
bedbound
Room 303
Sucking Dublin

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