The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant
Faith Healer
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by Brian Friel
Oct. 12 - 29, 2006
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full list of dates below. Our review in the Independent Weekly. The Fantastic Francis Hardy, Faith Healer, has spent his life touring the dying villages of Scotland and Wales with Grace, his long-suffering lover, and Teddy, his cockney manager. The story of their restless touring and fateful return to Ireland is a haunting meditation on faith, love, and hope. Directed by Dana Marks
featuring Michael O'Foghludha, Nicole Farmer, and Jay O'Berski |
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| Thursday | October 12 | Rock Rest Amphitheatre (Pittsboro) This flyer (97 KB PDF / Adobe Acrobat file) has a map and directions, but says you need reservations -- you don't. There are no reservations for this play. |
| Saturday | October 14 | Chatham Mill (Pittsboro) |
| Saturday | October 21 | Chapel Of the Cross (Chapel Hill) directions on their site |
| Thursday | October 26 | Leland Little Auction House 246 S. Nash St., Hillsborough directions on their site (look for the "map" link near the bottom of the left side) |
| Friday | October 27 | 108 Morris St. (Downtown Durham, right next door to the Durham Arts Council building) |
| Sunday | October 29 | 7:00 PM - Urban Design Center in Raleigh, at 133 Fayetteville St. Mall, Suite #100 (on the first floor of the Alexander Building, across from the First Union Capital Center building) |
All shows at 8pm except Oct. 29 which is at 7:00 PM
$12 tickets available exclusively at the door
About the play:
"One of the finest plays written in the English language in the last fifty years" [The Irish Times]
"Theatrical Magic! Brian Friel's play is brilliantly evocative" [The Guardian]
About the current Broadway production with Ralph Fiennes & Cherry Jones:
"(A)nyone who starts listening, with full attention, to the words and, just as important, the silences of the three characters who tell their horrible, fantastic and oddly familiar story (will) be fatally hooked." [The New York Times]
"'Faith Healer' is, to use one of its key words, a "fantastic" theatrical experience, outdistancing the current Broadway pack by a country mile, with three performances to be treasured in memory, and reinforcing Friel's position as one of the three or four finest living English-speaking playwrights...This is an evening of the most wonderful theatre" [New York Post]
