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Faith Healer

Written by Brian Friel

Directed by Cathy MW Kurz

The darkly lyrical tale of a charismatic faith healer roaming the countryside of Scotland and Wales as seen through his own eyes and through those of his wife and manager. Their sometimes whimsical, sometimes painful, yet always intimate and revealing recollections vary as the trio struggles to make sense of their collective lives and paint a picture of their final days together.

. . . An itinerant Irish spellbinder plies his strange trade, gypsy-like, more theatrical than religious, on the  backroads of Scotland and Wales.   Grace, the woman, inextricably bound to him yet seeing through him.   Teddy, his Cockney assistant, attracted by the faith healer’s fantasy and chicanery.” These three relive, in the contradiction of Rashomon-like monologues, varying versions of their mysterious final days together, with the sometimes damning, sometimes merciful, capriciousness of memory. Brian Friel at his most lyrically resonant.

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The Cast

Murphy Wulfgar (Frank Hardy)

Melissa King (Grace Hardy)
Michael Lyon (Teddy)

Artist/Design Team

Cathy MW Kurz (Director)
Amara Rosenbaum (Stage Manager)

Bill VanDeest (Scenic/Lighting Designer)
Hannah Clark (Asst. Technical Director)

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