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Theatre

If you hate the Irish, you'll adore this play

30 March 2024

9:00 AM

30 March 2024

9:00 AM

Faith Healer

Lyric Hammersmith, until 13 April

Police Cops: The Musical

Southwark Playhouse, in rep until 20 April

Faith Healer is a classic Oirish wrist-slasher about three sponging half-wits caught in a downward spiral of penury, booze, squalor, sexual repression, bad healthcare, murderous violence and non-stop drizzle. The mood of grinding despair never lets up for a second as the healer, Frank Hardy, along with his moaning wife and their Cockney sidekick, motors around the British Isles trying to cadge pennies from cripples in exchange for bogus cures.

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