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
FORTHCOMING PRODUCTIONS
Krapp's Last Tape
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ARCADIA
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DEATH OF A SALESMAN
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RECENT PRODUCTIONS
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Having toured to Sydney, Edinburgh and played in Dublin in 2009, the Gate Theatre is delighted to begin 2010 with one of Friel’s greatest masterpieces, Faith Healer. Read more... |
"I defy even a latter day Scrooge not to be enchanted by this production" Sunday Independent Back by popular demand, Dickens’ timeless classic of the true spirit of Christmas at the Gate. Read more... |
The Gate has a long and close relationship with the award winning playwright, screenwriter and director, Conor McPherson, premiering many of his works both at home and abroad, many of which the author also directed. Read more... |
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