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First performance
  
October 2011

Adapted from
  
Le Contrat

3.6/5
Time Out

Playwright
  
Sean Foley

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Characters
  
Michelle, Porter, Dent, Vincent, Dudley, Ralph, Policeman

Comedies
  
The Play What I Wrote, A Chorus of Disapproval, Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect N, The Winter's Tale, The Walworth Farce

The Painkiller is a play by Sean Foley, adapted from Francis Veber's Le Contrat. Best known as the author of Le Dîner de Cons, Veber specialises in creating double acts. Foley's adaptation received its world premiere at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast, on 29 September 2011. The production starred Kenneth Branagh and Rob Brydon, and was directed by Foley.

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