A modern stage classic performed around the world, Aldyth Morris’ “Damien” features Ken Wright as the heroic nineteenth-century Belgian priest who voluntarily lived among the lepers of society. Wright portrays what period newspapers called “the one clean man among a flock of almost a thousand lepers.” His performance traces the trials of Father Damien’s ministry during sixteen years of outreach — a calling that ended only when the priest died after contracting leprosy himself
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