A friar has doubts. A woman named Clare appears. God, love, or both?
After 18 years as a friar, Peter is no longer sure of his vocation. It is a happy life, maybe too much so, and now he has met Clare. Will his doubts run away with him? Runaway friars are officially "fugitives" who must be persuaded back to their order. Author Sean Walsh fled the Franciscan order to become first a journalist, then a playwright and is now a radio drama producer in Ireland.
Acting
Stephen Rea's haunted eyes do ALL the heavy lifting
Writing
Playwright-turned-screenwriter's dialogue crackles with unspoken tension
Director
Peter Gill
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
1970s Ireland was basically one giant crisis of Catholic faith, so this hit different. Sean Walsh literally lived this.
Peter Gill was already a radical theatre director — his first TV movie keeps that stage DNA in every cramped interior shot.
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