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Faith Healer
Verdict: Lyrical healing
We have the Irish to thank for keeping the music in the English language alive on stage over the past century. Two of the greatest exponents of this are Frank McGuinness and Brian Friel.
McGuinness has a new play, The Visiting Hour, out this week. Starring Stephen Rea and Judith Roddy, it was filmed at Dublin s Gate Theatre. And one of Friel s finest, Faith Healer, has been recorded as an audio drama, with Ian Rickson directing Ciaran Hinds, Michelle Fairley and Toby Jones.
The Visiting Hour is a dark, unsettling game of cat and mouse between a man with dementia, living in a care home, and his daughter, who comes to see him during the pandemic.
Ahead of
The Visiting Hour, the Gate Theatre s inaugural recent online production, the play’s performers spoke about the circumstances leading to its writing. Judith Roddy explained that she had long harboured an ambition to work alongside Stephen Rea and asked if Frank McGuinness might write something for them. As it happened, according to Rea, McGuinness was ‘working on something’ that might work rather well, a one-act drama that unfolds as a daughter visits her father at a residential home, a setting that crystalizes the longing and loss suffered by those separated from aged parents and loved ones during the Covid pandemic.
The Visiting Hourgatetheatre.ie, to May 23★★★★One could almost mistake The Visiting Hour, the new play by Frank McGuinness, for a drama by Samuel Beckett. An ageing man with curtains of ungroomed hair