Faith Healer - Broadway

Made a rare foray to the "Great White Way" to see Ralph Fiennes in the limited run of "Faith Healer". I'd have to say that, on balance, I really enjoyed the three actor play with limited sets and props and consisting of four soliloquies. The other talented thespians in the production are veteran Broadway actress, and formidable talent, Cherry Jones and the English actor, Ian McDiarmid, winner of the London Critics Best Actor Award for his perfomance in this play and best know for his film role in 5 Star Wars movies as Palpatine.

The Award-winning play is slow going and a bit of a downer but well worth checking out to see one of our great contemporary actors (Mr. Fiennes) strut his stuff in an "actors play". Mr. McDiarmid steals the show as "Teddy", the manager of Mr. Fiennes faith healer, with both a touchingly comedic performance and deep emotional undercurrents...

Serious stuff.
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