This sell-out production is engaging from the start. The stage is screened by a wall of water as one sits waiting for the action. We open with a monologue by Frank who we quickly learn is the Faith Healer. He apparently has gifts that work from time to time and he becomes the centre of a roadshow, managed by the cockney Teddy and his girlfriend Grace. The following two acts are the monologue accounts by Grace and Teddy, essentially all covering the same territory but from different perspectives. Finally, we have Frank again, concentrating on his last appearance -at a pub in Ballybeg.
It was a beautiful performance of beautiful writing and I found it very worthwhile to buy the text. This clarified various points but one is still left with the enigma of the ending.
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