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.

​Performed in English with Chinese surtitles

Critics

★★★★★

 "Absorbing fiction... brilliant and profound... a great play.”

- The Irish Times

★★★★★

"One of those rare works of art audiences re destined to recall as a deeply personal experience. A powerful piece of writing."

- The New York Times"

★★★★★

"The writing is beautiful, supple, rhythmical, charged with the slow, sure throb of despair and enchantment…"

- The Observer

★★★★★

"One of the most quietly powerful and influential plays of the last 30 years."

- The Guardian

★★★★★

A mesmeric and incandescent masterpiece."

- The New York Times

Pod Programme 

Faith Healer - Chinese Excerpts Reading 

"At long last I was renouncing chance"

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"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.

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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.

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Translation & Performance: Bonni Chan

Live Music: Lau Chi Bun

Lighting Design: Lau Ming Hang

5-7.4.2026 5pm

6.4.2026 4pm & 8pm

Cattle Depot Theatre

​$160 / $100#