Photography: Trent O'Donnell
Faith Healer
Arguably Friel’s greatest play, Faith Healer
influenced a generation of Irish writing for
the theatre. Frank Hardy is a faith healer
who has spent a lifetime touring the decayed
villages of Scotland and Wales with his
manager Teddy and his wife/mistress Grace.
The story of their touring and of their fateful
return is told in separate, often contradictory
accounts by Grace, Teddy and Frank himself.
Taken together these narratives create a
mosaic that is both seductive and terrifying.
Cast:
Ingrid Craigie, Kim Durham, Owen Roe
‘Mesmerising... a major work of art’
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Saturday 15-Tuesday 18 August 7.30pm,
Sunday 16 August 2.00pm, Wednesday 2,
Friday 4 & Saturday 5 September 7.30pm
King's Theatre
Tickets £25 £23 £20 £17 £15 £10
2 hours 40 minutes approximately
eif.co.uk/faithhealer
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the yalta Game
An accountant holidays alone, leaving
his wife and family behind in Moscow.
While away he meets a young woman and
they indulge in a brief affair. Back home they
both find themselves obsessed by their
encounter and meet again to embark on
a self destructive path of duplicity, ecstasy
and love.
The Yalta Game is based on a theme in Anton
Chekhov’s The Lady with the Lapdog.
Friel’s expressive interpretation turns one
of the best short stories ever written into
a provocative piece of modern theatre.
‘a beautiful and poetic examination of truth
and reality’ THE AUSTRALIAN STAGE
Saturday 29 & Sunday 30 August 9.00pm,
Tuesday 1 September 9.00pm,
Friday 4 September 5.00pm,
Saturday 5 September 2.00pm
King's Theatre
Tickets £25 £23 £20 £17 £15 £10
1 hour approximately
eif.co.uk/theyaltagame
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afterplay
An extraordinary encounter between two
of Chekhov’s lost souls. You may have met
Sonya before in Uncle Vanya and Andrey
in The Three Sisters. Both characters are
now middle-aged, but cannot escape the
baggage of their earlier lives; Andrey is still
confused and living in a remote rural town;
Sonya continues to pine over the local doctor.
The two characters meet by chance in a
café and as we follow their sometimes stilted
conversation, we slowly discover the fate of
both their families.
‘Remarkable... takes us close to the heart
of Chekhov.’ THE GUARDIAN
‘Beautifully performed… superb’
THE AUSTRALIAN
monday 31 August 9.00pm,
Tuesday 1 September 6.00pm,
Thursday 3 September 7.30pm,
Friday 4 September 2.00pm &
Saturday 5 September 5.00pm
King's Theatre
Tickets £25 £23 £20 £17 £15 £10
1 hours 5 minutes approximately
eif.co.uk/afterplay
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