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CRISIS OF FAITH.(Faith Healer)(The Drowsy Chaperone)(Theater review)
"The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide," Oscar Wilde said. The aphorism came to mind as I was watching the Gate Theatre production of the four eloquent monologues on the paradox of talent which make up Brian Friel's "Faith Healer" (imported from Dublin to the Booth, under the elegant direction of Jonathan Kent). The subject of the monologues is the Irish faith healer Frank Hardy (Ralph Fiennes)--the "Fantastic Francis Hardy," as the threadbare banner behind him proclaims. Frank's speeches are the first and last of the evening; through their evasions, omissions, and confessions, they chart the trajectory of his self-destruction. Frank's wife, Grace (Cherry Jones), ...
- Staging the indeterminate: Brian Friel's Faith Healer as a postdramatic...
- Magazine article from: Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies Barnett, David September 22, 2006 700+ words
...difficulties of accommodating Faith Healer under the rubric of...three characters, Frank the faith healer, Grace, his partner...nonetheless considers Faith Healer 'modernist' because...I'm one of his [Frank's] fictions too...
- review; `Faith Healer' explores fleeting memories, truth.(NEWS)
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Preston, Rohan October 25, 2009 700+ words
...play -- her husband, Frank Hardy (Joe Dowling...in his works, and "Faith Healer" continues those themes...and low moments that Frank, Grace and Teddy shared on the road as Frank "performed" -- their...opening buzz about "Faith Healer" because it marked...
- 'FAITH HEALER' OPENS SEASON.(Capital Region)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) May 25, 2009 700+ words
...Brian Friel's "Faith Healer" is being offered...season. Francis, Frank, is the faith healer, and he is a man...itself is rescued by Frank's return. But the...hopeless as it gets. "Faith Healer" is a daring and...
- `Faith Healer' Packs Power
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times HEDY WEISS March 15, 1995 700+ words
...masterpiece, "The Faith Healer," a haunting...its title, "The Faith Healer" also is a cautionary...Productions, is Frank (Si Osborne...Osborne turns Frank's self-lacerating...humming to the faith healer's ludicrous theme...
- 'Faith Healer' is more blarney than magic; Brian Friel's play offers arresting...
- Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter Blaney, Retta May 19, 2006 700+ words
Frank Hardy's healing...Brian Friel's "Faith Healer," at the Booth...Broadway in 1979, "Faith Healer" is the story of Frank (Mr. Fiennes...production of "Faith Healer," by the way...consideration of Frank's gift, which...
- Faith Healer. (People's Light and Theatre Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
- Magazine article from: Commonweal Weales, Gerald March 12, 1993 700+ words
...Friel's 1979 play Faith Healer. Although Jarlath...first and the last by Frank, the titular faith healer. He is a difficult...terrible night in Frank's final monologue...exhilaration. He is the faith healer at last, healing...
- "Renouncing change": salvation and the sacred in Brian Friel's Faith...
- Magazine article from: Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature Strain, Margaret M. September 22, 2004 700+ words
...monologue narrates Frank's return to Ireland...manager. There, the faith healer, whose only certitude...however, to read Faith Healer against a broader...Might we interpret Frank's climactic last...opening lines of Faith Healer, the audience bears witness to ...
- A leap of `Faith'; Guthrie director Joe Dowling steps onstage in homage to his...
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Royce, Graydon October 18, 2009 700+ words
...Brian Friel's "Faith Healer," one of the...centering around Frank Hardy, an itinerant...s legacy. "Faith Healer" had been one...never look at `Faith Healer' again." That...could stand to hear Frank Hardy in a voice...