Lyric Hammersmith, LondonRachel O'Riordan's powerful production explores political, medical and religious faith with a wholly convincing cast When Brian Friel's Faith Healer opened on Broadway in 1979, it closed, critically trashed, after 20 performances. The Irish playwright told an interviewer: "You feel as you do about a sickly child for a panned play." But the script, 45 years on, is one of Friel's most beloved o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42PM on March 21, 2024