PROGRAMME DETAILS
OPENING WEDNESDAY 27 JANUARY
23 PERFORMANCES ONLY
FAITH HEALER
'One of the finest plays written in the English language' The Irish Times
StarringIngrid Craigie · Kim Durham · Owen Roe
Arguably Friel’s greatest play, Faith Healer influenced a generation of Irish writing for the theatre. Frank Hardy, faith healer, has spent a life time touring the decayed villages of Scotland and Wales with his manager, Teddy, and his wife/mistress, Grace.
The story of their touring and of their fateful return is told in separate, often contradictory, stories by Grace and Teddy and Frank himself. These narratives taken together make up a mosaic that is both seductive and terrifying.
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Owen Roe, Durham and Craigie give masterful and precise performances’The Herald
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Irish playwriting of the last 30 years owes to this beautiful and elusive work’The Guardian
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Immaculate production for Friel experts the Gate Theatre of Dublin - starring an unforgettably crumpled charismatic Owen Roe’The Scotsman
Tickets:
Monday €25
Tuesday - Thursday €27
Friday / Saturday €30
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