The action takes place in late August 1833 at a hedge-school in the townland of Baile Beag, an Irish-speaking community in County Donegal. In a nearby field camps a recently arrived detachment of the Royal Engineers, making the first...

Brian Friel: Collected Plays - Volume 3 von Friel, Brian

Throughout the remote and forgotten corners of the British Isles, Frank Hardy offers the promise of redemption to the sick and the suffering. But his is an unreliable gift, a dangerous calling which brings him into conflict with his wife...

"Faith Healer" ist ein faszinierendes Drama von Brian Friel, das die Geschichte von Francis Hardy erzählt, einem Mann mit der angeblichen Fähigkeit, Menschen durch Glauben zu heilen. Das Buch besteht aus vier Monologen, die von drei...