『Medicine』

It quickly took the theater world by storm after its premiere in the UK in 2021.
The long-awaited Japanese premiere of Enda Walsh's latest work!

His works include writing the stage plays ``Ballyturk'' and ``Arlington,'' winning the Tony Award for Best Musical Screenplay for the stage version of the movie ``Once,'' and writing the screenplay for David Bowie's posthumous musical ``Lazarus.'' , an Irish-born playwright and screenwriter who has been attracting attention in Japan.Enda Walsh.

Enda Walsh's latest work ``Medicine'' will be premiered at the Edinburgh International Festival in August 2021, performed at the Galway International Arts Festival in September, and will be performed in New York in November.It received rave reviews in British newspapers and quickly took the theater world by storm.

In 2024, ``Medicine'' will finally make its debut in Japan.He has previously directed ``Bally Turk'' and ``Arlington'' [Love Story].Akira Shirai.The appearance includesKei Tanaka Nao Eriko Tomiyama We have assembled an attractive cast.The cast consists of only three actors and one drummer.Please look forward to the world of humor and anxiety that unfolds on Theater Tram.

“None of my plays were loved orI have written about people who were not properly looked after. ”　― Enda Walsh

Enda Walsh is a playwright and screenwriter born in 1967 in Dublin, Ireland. Her work ``Disco Pigs'' attracted attention, and now Enda Walsh's works are performed worldwide, including in Ireland and the UK, and have been translated into over 2018 languages.She has also worked in New York in recent years, winning a Tony Award for Best Original Screenplay for her script for the musical version of Once Upon a Street Corner.She also wrote the screenplay for the musical Lazarus, set to music by David Bowie, which made her even more famous. In March 2019, she wrote and directed the stage version of British author Max Porter's debut novel Grief is the Thing with Feathers, which premiered in Dublin, Ireland, produced by Complicite.The following year, in March XNUMX, they performed again at the Barbican Center in the UK, and from April to May of the same year at St. Anne's Warehouse in New York.She is also active as an opera writer and director.

Walsh's latest work Medicine will be premiered at the Edinburgh International Festival in August 2021, performed at the Galway International Arts Festival in September, and will be performed in New York in November.It received rave reviews in British newspapers and quickly took the theater world by storm.
Directed by Enda Walsh.John Cain was played by Irish actor Domhnall Gleeson (Harry Potter, Ex Machina, Star Wars).

Enda Walsh was inspired to write Medicine by reading about how patients in Irish mental hospitals were treated, and by watching his own mother, who had moved to a nursing home and was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. , is said to have had a big impact.
"All of my plays have been about people who weren't loved or looked after properly. This play is about people who are in institutions or homes, who are addicts, who need to be looked after. , and what happens if we abandon them,” Enda Walsh said in an interview at the premiere.

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There will be tour performances in Hyogo, Aichi, and Shizuoka.
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