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Faith Healer and Molly Sweeney are united both by their monologic form and by their contention that truth is subjective, a matter of perception and recall. Sight becomes a metaphor in both Faith Healer and Molly Sweeney for knowledge. Yet the easy equation of sight and insight is troubled by the unreliability of perception and memory.
Jun 4, 2024 · Another Friel play, Faith Healer, also has three characters speaking in monologues, but those aren’t intercut with the others as are the ones in Molly Sweeney. All dialogue is contained within the speeches, with the speakers quoting others’ words.
Jul 2, 2011 · Being Friel, of course, these moments do not last: Rice’s miracle turns into a curse; Hugh makes it only as far as a pub; Frank Hardy is forever haunted by whatever power he had on the night...
“Was it all chance? - or skill? - or illusion? - or delusion?” Frank Hardy is a travelling faith healer offering cures to people in need.
These factors make two of Friel's plays especially worth study. Both Faith Healer (1979) and Molly Sweeney (1994) are monologic. Their status as theater pieces demands that we respect them as performance, but their form...
Faith Healer is a play by Brian Friel about the life of the faith healer Francis Hardy as monologued through the shifting memories of Hardy, his wife, Grace, and stage manager, Teddy. It was first produced in 1979.
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Oct 2, 2024 · Friel powerfully captures the blind human’s familiarity with darkness. She pities sighted swimmers for their inability to surrender totally to the enveloping sea. As the operation approaches, she...
