The Healing

The Healing

The Healing

Samuel D. Hunter is no stranger to writing about people with physical disabilities—or people living in Idaho, where he’s from. His play The Whale (2012), which concerned a morbidly obese man mostly confined to his sofa, won him a special Drama Desk Award. So it makes sense that he’d receive a commission to write a play for Theater Breaking Through Barriers (TBTB), a company that employs actors with disabilities. The result is The Healing, a strange play that fuses religion and faith with the struggle of people who have physical disabilities.

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