I was particularly drawn to the play Faith Healer because of the format. Without even reading the play, I started to explore a memory piece for my own play. I’m really attracted to the idea of working with less popular formats when playwriting. On a side note, I’m at bit of an advantage when writing this post because we discussed the play today. I really liked what Kelsey said about the difference between the truth and being right or at least thinking you’re right. There are a lot of conflicting “truths” of this show between the characters and even the audience. It’s hard to say if a truth exists because it is so open ended. People interpret things differently but why does that always mean that there are discrepancies between stories of the same event? I think it’s interesting because that is not uncommon. People always have different versions of the truth that they identify with and because of this, it’s really hard to know what actually happened in anyway. I guess, all you can really do is believe what you want to and disregard what doesn’t sound right. Does that mean that everyone will identify with the same version of the truth as you? Absolutely not. But that’s just what makes everything so interesting and what gives people a constant curiosity. Maybe the real truth doesn’t exist in anyway because things are always overlooked or exaggerated but you can learn more about people by the way they relay a story and what they place emphasis on versus someone else telling the same story. This comes to the idea of faith and how it connects to the story. While it’s obvious that it does have to do with the plot and the idea of healing but in order to come to peace with the story (if it’s even possible), you have to have faith in one character or one sure story. My faith is pushed every day and it oftentimes directly correlates to the truth and whether I trust people are telling it. Trusting someone is telling the truth and having faith in them aren’t mutually exclusive but they’re also not the same thing either.