A play about the life of late Korean cardinal, Stephen Kim Sou-hwan, is proving a big hit, the drama company staging the production says. According to Catholic drama company IMD, ''Cardinal, a Fool" has been filling the Catholic Youth Center Theater in Seoul since its opening night on January 24. On an average night at least 80 percent of the seats are taken, it says . IMD is staging the play to commemorate the second death anniversary of Cardinal Kim and is meant to show the late prelate as an ordinary person and not a major Church official. "Audiences are higher for this than most commercial plays," said Alexious Park U-gon, IMD's director "Audiences feel sympathetic toward Cardinal Kim who called himself a fool for not realizing the grace of God fully until just before he died." The play will run at the Catholic Youth Center Theater until May 30 and IMD plans to stage local performances in June. The drama company is also looking to take the production to churches in Los Angeles and New York for the Korean faithful in July. The highly-respected cardinal, who died on February 16, 2009 at age 86, was an iconic figure in Korea’s bloody path towards democracy during the 1970’s and 80’s, and spearheaded church efforts against military dictatorship. KO13406.1642