Faith Healer

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Faith Healer
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Brian Friel
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:80
Dimensions(mm): Height 200,Width 130
Category/GenrePlays, playscripts
ISBN/Barcode 9780571333882
ClassificationsDewey:822.914
Audience
General
Edition Main

Publishing Details

Publisher Faber & Faber
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publication Date 7 July 2016
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Throughout the remote and forgotten corners of the British Isles, Frank Hardy offers the promise of redemption to the sick and the suffering. But his is an unreliable gift, a dangerous calling which brings him into conflict with his wife Grace and his manager Teddy. Their competing accounts of past events reveal the fragility of memory and the necessity of stories as a means of survival. Brian Friel's Faith Healer was first produced at the Longacre Theatre, New York, in April 1979 and was revived at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in June 2016. 'The night of Faith Healer is one that still blazes in recollection for me, as religious experiences of art do. And it became a sort of touchstone for me in understanding not only Mr. Friel's work with a depth I hadn't appreciated before but also for defining the elusiveness of great art and the pain of the artist who creates it.' - Ben Brantley, New York Times

Author Biography

Born in 1929 in Omagh, County Tyrone in Northern Ireland, Brian Friel was one of Ireland's most prominent playwrights. In addition to his published plays, he has written short stories; screenplays; film, TV and Radio adaptations of his plays; and several pieces of non-fiction on the role of theatre and the artist. He died in 2015.