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.