Faith Healer by Brian Friel

 

One of the masterpieces of Ireland’s greatest playwright, Faith Healer weaves together the stories of a travelling healer, his wife and his manager. From their different versions of the healer’s performances and a terrible event at the center of the drama, Friel creates a powerful and haunting work of art.

The play was voted as one of the 100 most significant plays of the 20th century in a poll conducted by Royal National Theatre and has been named by The Independent as one of the “40 best plays of all time”.

“The writing is beautiful, supple, rhythmical, charged with the slow, sure throb of despair and enchantment…Brian Friel is the most profound and poetic of contemporary Irish dramatists.” (Observer).