‘Be part of a unique promenade experience: journey by bus through the west
Donegal countryside to three community halls for Acts 1-3 (barbecue dinner included
on Portnoo Pier) returning to the Highlands Hotel ballroom in Glenties for Act 4’
Act 1 – Edeninfagh Parish Hall in the Bluestacks
Act 2 – Iniskeel Parish Hall overlooking Iniskeel island and Naran strand
interval dinner on Portnoo Pier aka Tennessee Barbecue (within ticket price).
Act 3 – Ardara Parish Hall
Act 4 – The back bar in the Highlands Hotel, Glenties.
August 8,9,10 & 15,16,17 2025. 4.30pm (bus leaves Market Hall, Glenties)
Faith Healer is one of the most intensely intimate plays ever conceived by a writer.
It’s a literary play that comprises 4 monologues across 4 separate acts recited by 3
actors, each with contradicting variations on their shared life stories. Each act is a
journey, externally (to different countries) and internally as a raw revealing of the
human spirit in hope and despair. Be part of this very special unfolding experience
of live reality drama of a high order, experience of theatre as rehearsal and
performance in one, in the voices of some of our greatest living stage and screen
actors.
Casts will be announced in July. Previous AOB Faith Healer actors have included
Tamsin Greig (Grace), Toby Jones (Teddy), Rory Kinnear (Frank), Alex Jennings
(Teddy), Robert Glenister (Teddy), Conleth Hill (Teddy).
Director: The Actor
Mise En Scène: DoranBrowne
Festival Producer: Jonathan Burgess
Event Managers: Michelle Lake (August 8-10);
Scene Setting: Faith Healer is set in late August and culminates in Ballybeg
(Glenties) in Act 4. Each of the acts intimate the different countries of Wales,
Scotland and Ireland. We’ve transposed the play to different country halls across
Ballybeg’s west Donegal. For our presentation there will be no Director and no
rehearsals.
Cast: To be announced in June & July
Tickets: €40. NB Due to hall size tickets are limited. Book early not to be
disappointed.
Special Act 4 Tickets at the door. FREE
Come and see Act 4, Frank Hardy’s closing monologue (c.20 mins) for FREE. You
will automatically be admitted to the back bar of the Highlands Hotel if you are
dressed up as if you have been invited to a wedding. The play’s final act is set in a
bar where there is a wedding party gathered when Frank arrives. Entry from 8.30pm
onwards. Doors close at 9.45pm.
