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Faith Healer

This powerful Rashomon-like meditation on truth and belief focuses on itinerant faith healer Frank Hardy, his wife and his manager as they travel to remote towns throughout the British Isles where Frank attempts to cure the sick and suffering.  All three characters tell about significant events in their 20 years together, but the perspective—and even the facts—change in each version, leaving the audience to determine the truth.

Critics have hailed Faith Healer as one of Friel’s most masterful works:

“…exciting, provocative, highly inventive…”
“…the narrative has the addictive pull of a detective yarn…”
“…funny, profound, spiritual and deeply moving, it is above all a triumph of the sheer power of story-telling.”

Featuring Mark Honan, Susan Reilly and Tony Reilly

April 5 -22
The Studio Theater at Portland Stage
Thursday-Friday: 7:30
Saturday: 8:00
Sunday Matinee April 15 & 22: 3:00
 
Sunday, April 15:  Talk-back after the matinee
Led by Bob Lyons, Instructor of Irish Theater, Film and Literature
at USM’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
 
Wednesday, April 18:  Special performance
6:45-7:15:  Talk by Francis McGrath,
Professor of English at USM and expert on Brian Friel
7:30: Performance
 
Tickets:
$20 general admission, $18 seniors/students
$15 Wednesday/Thursday
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AIRE Waves

AIRE Receives Grant

AIRE has been awarded a grant from the Maine Theater Fund of the Maine Community Foundation for operating support for our 2011-12 season.  

We are very grateful for these funds, which will help us to continue to share Irish culture with Maine audiences by providing high-quality theater that enlightens and entertains.  

Maine Community Foundation Grants

Bloomsday 2012

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