Medicine and The Same

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

John Kane is sitting on a hospital gurney, and very shortly a jazz percussionist, two women called Mary, a very old man and a giant lobster will arrive. Then everything will start.

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

It was first produced by Landmark Productions and Galway International Arts Festival as part of the Edinburgh International Festival, prior to performances in Galway and Brooklyn.

This edition also includes Walsh’s play The Same, about two women who meet in a psychiatric institution, which won the The Irish Times Irish Theatre Award for Best Play.