Faith Healer at The Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre

The Actors Studio presents Brian Friel’s Faith Healer. Faith Healer is a play told in four parts by three individuals; the eponymous hero whose name is Frank Hardy, Gracie who is Frank Hardy’s wife, Frank Hardy’s manager Teddy and finally by Frank Hardy once again. Each of them in their own way describes their successes and failures of their lives in a highly dramatic, comic and at times in terrifying details as they bring forth the Faith Healing performances to small villages halls in remote parts of the UK. There are stories of miracle cures, still born babies and the most intense part of the play would be the return to Frank’s home in a faraway Irish town as well as his possible death at the hands of a bunch of violent villagers and their wheelchair-bound friend. Ultimately, we may see that faith is so misdirected it results in both subtly and wildly differing recollections of the characters’ accounts of their life events which at times led them to downright lying.

Authors

• Brian Friel

Tony Awards and Nominations for Faith Healer