Faith Healing is an original dance/theater piece that takes the story line of Tennessee Williams's play The Glass Menagerie as its point of departure.
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Premiere: PS 122, New York City followed by Off Broadway run at Classic Stage Company in 1993.
Direction: Jane Comfort
Choreography: Jane Comfort and Company
Text: Tennessee Williams, Jane Comfort and members of the Company
Music: Richard Landry, Brooks Williams
Sets and Costumes: Liz Prince
Lighting Design: David Ferri
Original Cast:
Laura: Nancy Alfaro
Amanda: Mark Dendy
Tom: Scot Willingham
Gentleman Caller: David Neumann
Funding: The National Endowment for the Arts, the Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, Dance Magazine Foundation and the Harkness Foundation for Dance.
"Faith Healing" stretches the limits of what is customarily meant by dance or drama to achieve a truly new form: a physicalized version of the play…The performances are smashing." -- The Washington Post
"Overjoyed at Comfort's achievement, I wonder what it portends when the downtown dance hit of the year is a play."
-- The Village Voice
"The five performers who make up the cast of Faith Healing are all gifted dancers. But the theater-dance piece by Jane Comfort also reveals what extraordinary actors they are. Ms. Comfort is clearly sensitive director. And she has found unusual and inspired ways to physicalize some of the central events straightforward and simple, and profoundly touching." -- The New York Times
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