Doubt: A Parable
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Winner of the 2005 Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Doubt has become the most produced play in America. In a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, a strong-minded nun must decide whether to voice her concerns about a male colleague, even if she’s not completely certain of the truth.
Winner of the 2005 Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Doubt has become the most produced play in America. In a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, a strong-minded nun must decide whether to voice her concerns about a male colleague, even if she’s not completely certain of the truth. Doubt is a story filled with suspicions and dilemmas so real you’ll be talking about it long after you leave the theatre.
Winter 1964-5. NZ in summer snoozes...although even there 'Kiwi Keith' Holyoake is ruminating on the possible implications of the 'domino theory', and should we follow the Aussies. The US, a hemisphere away: this is not the nostalgic 60s of 'flower-power' and 'free love', the bit which 'if you can remember it, then you weren't there'! This is the darkly dramatic bit, of threat and uncertainty and change. It's the time of 'Civil Rights' and Martin Luther King', of 'the Cuban Missile Crisis', 'Vietnam', and John Kennedy, his assassination and the poisoned ‘dream’.....it's also the Second Vatican Council, and the promise of embracing a new relevancy in Roman Catholic world. And how will Sister Aloysius cope? It is the time of 'Doubt'......and what is this young priest, with his long-fingernails, his ball-point pen, his liking for 'Frosty the Snowman', really up to?
Ellerslie Theatrical Society Inc. presents Doubt: A Parable written by John Patrick Shanley and directed by Sian Davis at the Stables Theatre, Cnr Main Highway and Arthur St, Ellerslie.
4 June to 13 June 2009, 8pm
No 8pm performance Sunday 7 June
No peformance Monday 8 June
Matinees 6 and 7 June 2009, 2pm
Bookings:
09 309 9408
Website:
ellerslietheatre.co.nz
Tickets:
$20 Evening, $18 Evening Discount
$15 Matinee, $12 Matinee Discount