This week, Pi Theatre closes its 2023-2024 season with the Canadian premiere of Medicine at the Vancity Culture Lab from June 14 to 23
Written by multi-award-winning Irish playwright Enda Walsh (Once; Lazarus) and directed by Pi Theatre’s Richard Wolfe, Medicine is a heartbreaking, yet hugely energizing and thrilling journey through one man’s troubled past. It’s a devastatingly funny and moving meditation on how, for decades, we have treated those we have called ‘mentally ill’.
John lives in an institution. Every year, a couple of struggling local actors are hired to do “drama therapy” with John, re-enacting bits and pieces of his life and trauma. Chaos ensues, secrets come to light, and John grapples with the question of whether anyone is even watching.
The smart, funny and absurd production is performed by Jay Clift, Genevieve Fleming, Nyiri Karakas, and Stephen Lyons
“I am beyond excited to offer Vancouver the opportunity to experience the Canadian premiere of Enda Walsh’s extraordinary play,” says Wolfe. “Highly theatrical in its style, Medicine is thought-provoking, hilarious, and terrifying. Walsh shows us that other people can be both the poison that harms us, and the medicine we need to live in the world.”
Medicine opens this Friday June 14, running for 11 performances at Vancity Culture Lab, 1895 Venables Street, until June 23, 2024. Find more show information and tickets online at pitheatre.com/shows/medicine