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| May 01, 2006 | Green, Adam | COPYRIGHT 2006 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Adam Green

Any list of the greatest living playwrights would have to include the Irish dramatist Brian Friel, whose lyrical, mournful works include Philadelphia, Here I Come! and Aristocrats. This month, one of Friel's finest plays, 1979's Faith Healer, comes to New York from Dublin's Gate Theater, starring Ralph Fiennes as a traveling miracle worker intoxicated and destroyed by his gift, Cherry Jones as his emotionally battered wife, and Ian McDiarmid as his knavish manager. Though the story reaches its climax in ...

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