Medicine

Cast: 2f 1m plus drummer (plus additional voices, can be pre-recorded)

Staging: Built set

Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

Published in volume Medicine & The Same: two plays
First Staged:
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh International Festival, 2021

Medicine

By Enda Walsh
Published in volume Medicine & The Same: two plays

John Kane sits on a hospital trolley. Very shortly, a giant lobster, two women called Mary, a very old man and a jazz percussionist arrive. Then everything starts.

Enda Walsh's Medicine is a dark and frequently absurdist play. Devastatingly funny and profoundly moving, it examines how, for decades, we have treated those we call 'mentally ill'.

It was first produced by Landmark Productions and Galway International Arts Festival as part of the 2021 Edinburgh International Festival, prior to performances in Galway and New York. It was directed by Enda Walsh, with a cast including Clare Barrett, Aoife Duffin and Domhnall Gleeson, with drummer Seán Carpio.

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

'One of the most fiercely individual voices in the theatre today' New York Times

Press Quotes

'Flamboyant, funny and surreal'

Guardian

'Taut and energetic, frequently bleak, but shot through with touches of absurdist humour... burns with searing honesty... It's chilling, powerful, and unforgettable'

Whatsonstage

'A heartbreaking yet hugely energising and thrilling journey through one man's troubled psyche'

Scotsman

'Takes the stage by storm... It's bizarre, quite extraordinary and mind-boggling'

Broadway Baby

'Devilishly satirical... cuts disturbingly close to the bone'

Sunday Times

Cast: 2f 1m plus drummer (plus additional voices, can be pre-recorded)

Staging:Built set

Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

Published in volume Medicine & The Same: two plays

Also by Enda Walsh:

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

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