'Absorbing fiction . . . brilliant and profound . . . an infinitely fine play.'
                                                                 — David Nowlan, The Irish Times

Faith Healer is now recognised as one of the masterpieces of Ireland's greatest living playwright.

In the course of four monologues the stories of the travelling healer, his wife, and his manager unfold. Brian Friel weaves their versions of the healer's performance and a terrible event into haunting, magnificent art.

'Friel uses faith healing as a resonant metaphor of the artist and his gift, the mystery of how the muse inspires, deserts, and sometimes destroys its own.'
                                                                     — T.E. Kalem, The Irish Times