Michael Mack confronts abuser in ‘Faith’

BOSTON (MA)
Boston Herald

By Tenley Woodman / theater
Wednesday, January 11, 2012

It took Michael Mack decades to reconcile, but tonight the Cambridge playwright and poet will share the secret that has haunted him since childhood.

Mack’s one-man show “Conversations with My Molester: A Faith Journey,” at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, chronicles his struggles as a victim of abuse at the hands of a priest.

“One of the reasons I am doing this is because I lived with this secret for decades,” said Mack, 55. “The secret is like an illness. Address the problem of secrecy. Child sexual abuse is the last dark secret we have as a society.”

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