“Faith Healer” at Guthrie
Dowling takes the stage this week in Brian Friel’s “Faith Healer,” one of the Irish master’s finest plays. The Guthrie director is one of three actors — with Raye Birk and Sally Wingert — who deliver lyrical monologues centering around Frank Hardy, an itinerant preacher who has wandered across the British Isles with a healing ministry. Dowling plays Hardy.
According to the Guthrie Theater review, the three-character drama is a set of monologues by the actors, as they each give their version of the stillbirth of Grace’s baby. In this intimate portrait of three adults, told through a series of four emotionally stirring monologues, Frank, Grace and Teddy each describe their own version of the personal and professional bond they share, the astonishing yet unpredictable nature of Frank’s ability, and how their lives were ultimately shaped forever by a single event.
The play will go on until December 6, 2009. Get tickets.
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