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Travelling faith healer Frank Hardy, his lover Grace and his manager Teddy give differing accounts of their life on the road together in four powerful, lyrical monologues, the realities of which shift as each of them tries to make sense of what has happened.

Everyone believes in Frank’s healing powers, but his gift is unreliable and his charisma comes with a destructiveness which all three struggle to understand or live with.

This major new production of Brian Friel’s masterpiece marks the 10th anniversary of his death and features a superb cast. Friel is sometimes referred to as the Irish Chekhov.

Faith Healer is a profound, poetic exploration of the creative and destructive qualities of the artist; the subjectivity of memory and the pain of exile.

Ben Brantley, writing in the New York Times, describes perfectly how the play ‘unfolds as a quietly devastating study of pain recollected and the transfiguring nature of memory. It is one of those rare works of art audiences are destined to recall as a deeply personal experience, and you'll find yourself trying to sort out the different visions of reality… long after the play is over.’

With strong language.

Cast:
Frank ..... Aidan Gillen
Grace .... Michelle Fairley
Teddy ..... Daniel Mays

Sound Design ..... Peter Ringrose
Composer ..... Jon Nicholls

Written by Brian Friel

Directed and produced by Jessica Dromgoole and Mary Peate

A Hooley production for ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4

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