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In four monologues delivered by three actors, Brian Friel offers a gripping analysis of the bewildering
nature of the gift of the artist, as well as the mystery of the human gift of healing. Faith Healer
is the unforgiving and exalting tale of Frank, an itinerant and erratic healer of the sick, his lover
Grace, and his manager, Teddy.
The play fascinates with humor, duplicity and charm. Who, if anyone, is telling the truth?
Are there several truths? Can these truths explain ourselves to ourselves, or to each other, ever?
Brian Friel, author of Dancing at Lughnasa it as his most poetic and depressive in the
Rashomon-like exploration of the heart.
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