The play was originally performed in Hawaii in by Terence Knapp and has had numerous professional and amateur productions since that time.
The play is set in 1936 when Damien's body is being transported from Molokai to his native Belgium.
Damien featuring Terence Knapp was broadcast nationally on PBS in the United States in 1978 and again in 1986 on American Playhouse.
Aldyth Vernon Morris was born 24 Aug 1901 in Logan, Cache County, Utah, USA, the second of six children born to Peter Weston and Fanny Maughan Vernon.
[1] After working in San Francisco and New York, Morris moved to Honolulu in 1929.