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Christ, you’ve got to admit he really wa...

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Faith Healer

Brian Friel

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Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult, Mature Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act One
Time & Place
An empty stage, 1970s
Length
Long
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)

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Christ, you’ve got to admit he really was a bastard in many ways! I know he was drinking heavily--I know--I know all that! But for Christ’s sake to walk away deliberately when your wife’s going to have your baby in the middle of bloody nowhere--I mean to say, to do that deliberately, that’s some kind of bloody-mindedness.
[... …] And I’ve thought maybe--course it was bloody minded of him. I’m not denying that!--but maybe being the kind of man he was, you know, with that strange gift he had, I’ve thought maybe--well, maybe he had to have his own way of facing things…

Brian Friel. “Faith Healer” in Selected Plays.Faber and Faber, 1990. pp.363-365.

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