Now my memory must also make room for Sheen’s Frank, an interpretation that grounds the character in a grimy reality in ways I hadn’t thought possible. Frank has the first and last monologues of “Faith Healer.” And the presence established by Sheen in the opening scene justifies the accounts of the two other characters in the play. That’s Grace (a superb Indira Varma, as a woman turned into an unstanched wound by a lacerating love) and Teddy (a cozily louche David Threlfall). But still, the sometimes sadistic but irresistible man Grace could never leave was palpably there in Sheen’s initial portrait. In a way, it’s about how every one of us is an artist by default, reinventing the world each time we remember something.

Source: New York Times September 20, 2020 18:56 UTC