{"product_id":"faith-healer","title":"Faith Healer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA profound, harrowing excavation of the past that stands amongst Brian Friel''s masterpieces.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFaith healer – faith healing. A craft without \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ean apprenticeship, a ministry without \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eresponsibility, a vocation without a ministry.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrank Hardy, a travelling healer, offers the promise of redemption to the sick. But his is an unreliable gift, a dangerous calling, bringing him into conflict with his wife, Grace, and his manager, Teddy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFaith Healer\u003c\/i\u003e premiered at the Longacre Theatre, New York, 1979.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘The night of \u003ci\u003eFaith Healer\u003c\/i\u003e is one that still blazes in recollection for me, as religious experiences of art do. And it became a sort of touchstone for me . . . for defining the elusiveness of great art and the pain of the artist who creates it.’ BEN BRANTLEY, \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘The writing is beautiful, supple, rhythmical, charged with the slow, sure throb of despair and enchantment . . . Brian Friel is the most profound and poetic of contemporary Irish dramatists.’ \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57318817694078,"sku":"NW9780571333882","price":10.22,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780571333882.jpg?v=1778689724","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/faith-healer","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}