J. King is a "dynamitologist", a fraudulent healer who claims to help people realize their potential. One day he is confronted with a client with faith in him. A nameless millionaire, obsessed with the voice of the opera singer Beniamino Gigli, begs to be cured of his affliction.
"One of the greatest Irish plays of the century" (Irish Times)
"The language of the play is on a sort of inspired bender. It surfeits on its own potency. Tom Murphy's gift - here and in his other plays - is at once to stimulate and destabilise. It's a thrilling and intense experience to sit in a theatre and hardly to know where you are or that anything exists beyond the stage in front of you...This is a dark, funny, consuming evening of high points, breaking points, hangovers and hints - uncertain hints - of hope" (Observer)
