I just love soaking up that energy, and I love the cold air. It makes me feel very young and reminds me of when I was back here when I was 22. Being able to walk around and feel like you just disappear into the fabric of that is gorgeous. I’m living close to the theater, so just getting to see the skyline and feel New York and all the rest of it, it’s amazing. There are days where you feel much more anonymous, in a nice way. Are you able to go out and be a regular person around here, anonymous on the street? Your character, John, dreams of being invisible. I mean, the lobster costume is a distraction. But it certainly doesn’t let you know that up front. I think that’s at its core what it’s about. And the role of empathy in that and the role of medicine, good and bad, in that, and the importance of care, you know, and love. It’s a play partly about how we treat those that we describe as mentally ill. When people ask what “Medicine” is about, what do you tell them? Enda makes me react in a way that I don’t understand, and I just love that about him. And I was like, I don’t know what this is. Not mouth agog and tears just going as you were still engaged. I’d been moved to tears, maybe, but not like this. In a theater, you hadn’t ever fully cried before? I’d laughed so much, but I’d also never fully cried - like fully just wept, twice.

They’ve been doing it for like 15 years, 20 years, this farce, and this other person arrives into their midst, and things just go off the rails. And what we’re watching is one day when the farce breaks down. It’s a father and two sons, and he forces them to put on this farce every day. It blew my head off in a way that was totally new.

I really didn’t understand Enda fully, I don’t think, or get the full dose of him until I saw “The Walworth Farce.” Which I saw in a tiny room in Galway. Tell me about you and Enda Walsh’s plays.

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