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Faith Healer
Opens: 27/01/2011 Closes: 05/03/2011
Bristol Old Vic
Simon Godwin directs this version of Brian Friel's exceptional play, with Finbar Lynch taking on the role of Fantastic Francis Hardy, who travels the country administering miracles to injured souls. As the performance unfolds, separating the real from the imaginary becomes more and more difficult...For more information visit: http://www.bristololdvic.org.uk/faithhealer.html Buy: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?agency=BRISTOLOLDVIC&organ_val=21343&e…
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The Arts Desk“Played with great intensity by Finbar Lynch... ” Faith Healer is a masterpiece of late-20th-century theatre, rooted in Chekhov as well as Beckett, and yet completely original. Godwin's production, enriched by three excellent performances, expresses with deftness the richness...
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The Telegraph“Modern plays come no finer than Brian Friel's Faith Healer...” A wonderful play, beautifully performed, and I cannot recommend it too highly. Best of all, perhaps, is Richard Bremmer as the perky cockney manager Teddy, with his long, battered face, his blissfully funny reminiscences of the bizarre acts...
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Whatsonstage.com“The beauty of storytelling...” Godwin’s production is understated enough to let the tensions of Friel’s script rub together. The tragedy that visits the characters should obliterate all hope of there being a God. But Godwin’s interpretation allows for heart-in-throat moments
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Financial Times“Smaller does not in any way mean lesser...” Mike Britton’s design turns the basement studio into one of the dingy halls frequented by “the fantastic Francis Hardy, faith healer”. The intimacy adds to the compelling material, and Lynch knows well how to play a silence...
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