‘Faith Healer” is Brian Friel’s haunting tale of the charismatic Frank Hardy, his wife — or not — Grace, and his manager Teddy, who worship him in good times and prop him up in bad — until tragedy ...

After a stint in the army in 1943, Frank Hardy worked as a journalist ... as well as working as an artist for the army publication Salt. Transferred to Melbourne in 1944 he worked in the Army ...