The Same
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

Also by Enda Walsh:

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

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