DAMIEN: A ONE-MAN PLAY

by Aldyth Morris

STARRING WAYNE MESSMER

Wayne is strongly connected with the character of Father (Saint) Damien, “The Leper Priest of Molokai,” whom he has identified as his personal hero. In the one-man play Damien by Aldyth Morris, Messmer channels the powerful and inspirational stories of the challenges that Father Damien experienced while serving the community of the exiled lepers (Hansen’s Disease) on the remote Hawaiian Island of Molokai in the 1870’s and 1880’s, until his own life was taken by the affliction on April 15, 1889 at the age of 49. Father Damien was canonized in a ceremony at the Vatican on October 11, 2009. Messmer’s portrayal of Father (Saint) Damien has drawn unanimous critical acclaim and has been performed in Hawaii on two occasions.

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