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Article: Friel Keeps the Faith
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- Irish Voice
- Article date:
- December 17, 1996
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Emer Mullins
Irish Voice
12-17-1996
Friel Keeps the Faith.
RECENTLY seen on Broadway, Molly Sweeney was perhaps Brian Friel's most famous `monologue' play. But it is a tactic he used before with great effect - in Faith Healer, the tortured story of travelling Healer Francis Hardy, his wife Grace, and his English agent, Teddy.
The interwoven lives of the characters are revealed in monologues by each of the three. The themes of loss and redemption, with which Friel often grapples, run like a current throughout.
Brian Friel is a playwright who consistently portrays women as complex and paradoxical characters, and, in Faith Healer, the role of Grace Hardy is one any serious actress would fight to ...
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