DOUBT: A Parable
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Presented by Theatre Jezebel
By John Patrick Shanley
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama 2005
"A fine ensemble...Alison Peebles gives one of the finest stage performances seen on [the Tron's] stage since her Lady Macbeth all those years ago." **** The Herald
Read preview articles on Doubt from The Herald, The Scotsman and The List
When does suspicion become evidence? Is virtue greater than compassion? And if you refuse to deny an accusation, are you admitting guilt?
In 1960’s New York a young nun teaching at a Catholic school finds herself caught in the middle of a war of words. For Father Flynn, a compassionate and gifted priest, is under suspicion from the watchful and rigidly authoritarian nun, Sister Aloysius; suspicion of a crime of which she has no evidence but about which she has no doubt…
Utterly absorbing and full of twists and turns, John Patrick Shanley’s award-winning play asks difficult questions through a deceptively simple story. It is a dazzlingly written, gripping battle of wits with brilliantly drawn characters and deep understanding of human pride and frailty.
“A superbly told yarn” The New Yorker
“A gripping mystery, tightly written.” Time Out, New York
