PROGRAMME DETAILS
by Brian Friel
The Gate Theatre has had a long and rich association with Brian Friel, arguably Ireland’s greatest living playwright, and is delighted to begin 2006 with a production of one of his finest plays Faith Healer.
Frank Hardy, Faith Healer, has spent a life-time touring the decayed villages of Scotland and Wales with his manager, Teddy, and his wife/mistresss, Grace. Now he accepts that he must return home to Ireland, a destiny he can no longer postpone.
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 compelling and terrifying.
"Absorbing fiction… brilliant and profound… an infinitely fine play" The Irish Times WITH
Ingrid Craigie Ralph Fiennes Ian McDiarmid
Director Jonathan Kent
Set Designer Jonathan Fensom
Lighting Designer Mark Henderson
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