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TWN's "The Faith Healer" Faith healing is a fickle art in Brian Friel's beautifully written and dramatic "Faith Healer," which went up at the Theatre Workshop last week.

"Basically, it's the story of an artist, of a man who has a magnetism that people want to be around. He kind of fell into it, and never really knows when it's going to be on," said the play's director, Molly Martin.

The play consists of three monologues from each member of the story's trio: Frank, the charismatic man whose talent for healing ebbs and flows as he travels the Irish countryside (played by John Devaney); Teddy, his optimistic and avuncular manager (John Knox-Johnston) and his wife/mistress, Grace (Pam Diem).

"The play also fictionalizes different characters in his life. Whether they're the people he heals, his father, his wife, his manager - because he questions himself, ultimately. He doesn't know who he is, so he surrounds himself with fictions," Martin said.

All the characters relate the same events, but in different Roshomon-like versions. "Once the audience leaves, they'll have their own questions about who was telling the truth," Martin said.

When: Wed. - Sat., July 11-15; and Wed.

- Sat., July 18-21; all shows at 8:30 p.m.,

except for the matinee on Sun., July 15, at

3 p.m.

Where: TWN Mainstage, downstairs at the

United Methodist Church, 2 Centre St.

Cost: $25 For more information or for tick

ets, please call 228- 4305 or visit www.the

atre work shop.com or the TWN box office,

downstairs at the United Methodist Church.

Lecture: Nat Philbrick The Egan Maritime Foundation is pleased to announce that Nantucket resident, Nathaniel Philbrick, nationally acclaimed author and finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in History for his most recent work, "Mayflower," will give a lecture on "Nantucket's Alleged Smuggler, Kezia Coffin/Miriam Coffin"

Nathaniel Philbrick wrote the introduction to the 1995 edition of Joseph Hart's, "Miriam Coffin or The Whale Fisherman," published by the Mill Hill Press. Originally, the Nantucket novel was published in 1834, and it is known today that Herman Melville relied upon it as a primary source for information about the island while writing "Moby Dick."

Philbrick will talk about Kezia Coffin, the fictional Miriam Coffin of the so-named novel, but also about the novel itself. According to Philbrick, "It's a great, under-appreciated book about Nantucket" - the story of a "woman with an attitude," but it is also a fantastically detailed portrait of an island and its people during the early era of Pacific whaling."

When: Thurs., July 19 at 8 p.m. Where: Coffin School, 4 Winter St. Cost: The Lecture is free of charge to Egan

Maritime Foundation members. All others:

$10. Seating limited. Call 228-2505 for

advanced tickets.

Natalie Cole, Synergy Brass Quartet special guests at Boston Pops This year, the 11th Annual Boston Pops on Nantucket concert features special guest Natalie Cole and sees the return of conductor Keith Lockhart, conducting the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra.

Tim Russert, Managing Editor and Moderator of Meet the Press and political analyst for NBC Nightly News and the Today Program, will again host the event.

Cole stops on Nantucket on the eve of releasing her newest album, "Leaving," on Sept. 26. Daughter of the late Nat King Cole, Natalie made her own, permanent fame with "Unforgettable: With Love," an album that reached no. 1 on the Billboard Album charts, won the Grammy Awards for Album Of The Year and Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance and also scored Record Of The Year for the single "Unforgettable."

Synergy Brass Quintet will open the Second Act at the concert. The dynamic ensemble, comprised of five Boston residents, Bobby Thorp, trumpet, Jon Hurrell, horn, Chris O'Hara, trumpet, Bo Clifton, trombone and Adam Pijanowski, tuba, is considered to be one of the premier brass wind chamber music groups in the United States. The group is known as showmen as well as musicians, with over 300 performances planned in 2007, featuring jazz, pops, classical and modern music.

Sponsored by Nantucket Island Resorts/Jill and Stephen Karp as a benefit for Nantucket Cottage Hospital, The Pops on Nantucket concert raises funds for the island's only hospital, enabling the purchase of cutting edge equipment while fostering state-of-the-art patient care.

General admission tickets, as well as special reserved seating and sponsorship opportunities, are currently available on the hospital's Web site, www.nantuckethospital.org. Beginning July 23rd, tickets and Pops on Nantucket merchandise will be available for sale at the Hospital Living Room and in-town at Aunt Leah's Fudge, Country Village Real Estate, Murray's Toggery Shop and Visitors Services. For more information about the concert, please call 825-8181, email crdcontact@ackhosp.org, or visit the Hospital's Web site, www.nantuckethospital.org. Individuals interested in volunteering should call 228-2949.

The Village People headline 2007 Nantucket AIDS Network Gala The Village People are coming to Nantucket on September 30 to headline the Nantucket AIDS Network's 2007 Friendship Gala and Auction Events.

With more than one million Americans living with HIV and over 4 million infected with hepatitis, the Nantucket AIDS Network depends on the funds raised at the Friendship Gala and auction events to continue its mission as a community leader in HIV and hepatitis care, education and prevention.

This year's Friendship Gala & Auction Events kicks off with the Silent Auction at Preservation Institute: Nantucket, 11 Centre St. on Sat., Sept. 1, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The Silent Auction is free and open to the public and will feature fabulous crafts, artwork, antiques, jewelry and more. Wine and cheese will be served between the hours of 4:30 and 6 p.m., as we close the Silent Auction. The Friendship Gala & Live Auction is scheduled for Sunday, September 30, on the lawn at the White Elephant Hotel, overlooking Nantucket Harbor. Cocktails will begin at 5 p.m., followed by a five-star dinner, a live auction conducted by Rafael Osona, and dancing to the music of disco

icons, the Village People. I