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Making Productions & Grafitti Productions in association with MBL Productions and ProdUse Theatre present

John Patrick Shanley’s masterpiece is one of the most acclaimed plays in recent memory. Winning 4 Tony Awards including Best Play, named Best Play by the New York Drama Critics’ Circle, Best New Play (Drama Desk Awards) and Outstanding Play (Lucille Lortel Awards). Doubt, A Parable won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

The subsequent Hollywood film starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Viola Davis, received 4 Oscar and 3 BAFTA nominations.

Now Doubt, A Parable, in which a Catholic school principal questions a priest’s ambiguous relationship with a troubled young student, is to get its first London revival in 10 years.

“What do you do when you’re not sure?” So asks Father Flynn, the progressive and beloved priest at the St. Nicholas Church School in the Bronx, in his sermon. It’s 1964, and things are changing, to the chagrin of rigid principal Sister Aloysius. However, when an unconscionable accusation is levelled against the Father, Sister Aloysius realises that the only way to get justice is to create it herself. And as for the truth of the matter? As Father Flynn says, “Doubt can be a bond as powerful and sustaining as certainty.”

In stunning prose, John Patrick Shanley delves into the murky shadows of moral certainty, his characters always balancing on the thin line between truth and consequences.

Cast:

  • Sister Aloysius: Stella Gonet – OFFIEs NOMINEE Best Actress
  • Mrs Muller: Jo Martin – OFFIEs WINNER Best Supporting Actress
  • Father Flynn: Jonathan Chambers – OFFIES NOMINEE Best Actor
  • Sister James: Clare Latham – OFFIEs NOMINEE Best Supporting Actress

Director: Ché Walker
Set and Costume Design: Tim Lutkin
Sound Design: Joshua Robins
Casting Director: Collyer-Bristow

6 – 30 SEPTEMBER 2017
Southwark Playhouse, London
Start Time 7.30pm
Matinee Starts 3pm
Running Time 85 mins approx
Price £20 | £16 concessions | £12 preview performances