Brian Friel’s Faith Healer
- 7 hours ago
- 2 min read
Travelling through remote and lonely villages in Scotland and Wales, Frank works his magic, curing the sick and giving strength to the weak. Frank has a gift. A gift of healing. His powers are real, are they ?
Faith Healer is a haunting and spellbinding piece of theatre that tells the story of Frank, his wife Grace and manager Teddy who each take turns to recall their lives together, unveiling a pool of fractured and contradictory memories.
Acclaimed Hong Kong company Theatre du Pif brings its signature physical and emotional intensity to Brian Friel’s celebrated masterpiece – a profound meditation on art, faith and the stories we cling to for survival.
Director: Michael Bray
Cast: Sean Curran, Barry O'Rorke, Davina Carrete
Stage Designer: Lawrence Lee
Lighting Adviser: Lau Ming Hang
Lighting Designer: Hui Wing Yan
Producers: Melissa Leung Hiu-tuen, Jamie Wu
Marketing & Promotion: Muscle Green
10-11, 13 -18.4.2026 7:45pm
The Jockey Club Studio Theatre, Fringe Club
$340 /$250*
Free Seating
Performed in English with Chinese surtitles
No latecomers will be admitted.
*Discount tickets HK$250 for English performance are available for full-time students, senior citizens aged 60 or above, people with disabilities and the minder and Comprehensive Social Security Assistance (CSSA) recipients. Limited tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Concessionary ticket holders must produce evidence of their identity or age upon admission.
Pod Programme
Faith Healer - Chinese Excerpts Reading
"At long last I was renouncing chance"
"Art is not to show the island but where the sea cannot overcome the land." James Joyce, a fellow Irishman of Brian Friel.
This Easter, Faith Healer gathers in the half-light before its English staging unfolds. We invite you to first encounter its Chinese translated excerpts, where lines move like incantations, and language crosses borders in search of new resonance.
Three monologues rise in turn, like testimonies carried on the tide, circling memory, doubt, and faith as though piecing together an unseen truth. Accompanied by live music, the audience enters a world at once stark and spellbound: where belief trembles, love endures, and the human heart stands quietly revealed.
Translation & Performance: Bonni Chan
Live Music: Lau Chi Bun
Lighting Design: Lau Ming Hang
$160 / $100#
5-7.4.2026
5、7.4.2026 5pm
6.4.2026 4pm & 8pm
On & On Theatre Workshop Cattle Pot Theatre
The programme is conducted in Cantonese
Package
Purchase tickets for both the performance and the reading to enjoy a special package $450/ $300#
( includes one standard ticket for each event)
#Concessionary package price for students and seniors
Now available on art-mate
Supported by The Hong Kong Arts Development Council, and The Consulate General of Ireland
The Hong Kong Arts Development Council supports freedom of artistic expression. The views and opinions expressed in this project do not represent the stand of the Council.
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