TX BBC Radio 4 Saturday 23rd August at 3pm
New production of Brian Friel’s masterpiece marking the 10th anniversary of Friel’s death and featuring a superb cast with Aidan Gillen as Frank, Michelle Fairley as Grace and Daniel Mays as Teddy.
Travelling faith healer Frank Hardy, his lover Grace and his manager Teddy give differing accounts of their life on the road together in four powerful, lyrical monologues, the realities of which shift as each of them tries to make sense of what has happened.
Everyone believes in Frank’s healing powers, but his gift is unreliable and his charisma comes with a destructiveness which all three struggle to understand or live with.
Faith Healer is a profound, poetic exploration of the creative and destructive qualities of the artist; the subjectivity of memory and the pain of exile.
Directed by Jessica Dromgoole and Mary Peate
Sound design – Peter Ringrose
Composer – Jon Nicholls