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John Patrick Shanley's 2005 Pulitzer-Prize winning drama, DOUBT, is an immaculately crafted and deeply troubling inquiry into the nature of conviction, power, abuse, and justice. The play is set in 1964 at the St. Nicholas Church School in the Bronx, in the days after the religious loosening of Vatican II, and long before child-molestation cases had rocked the foundations of the Catholic Church. The stern unyielding principal of the school, Sister Aloysius, comes to believe that the school's young free-thinking priest, Father Flynn, has abused Donald Muller, the school's first black student. This instigates a fraught moral battle between the two, during which both speak eloquently and vehemently in their own defense. Caught up in the drama are Sister James, an idealistic nun, and Mrs. Muller, the boy's mother. Shanley's characters are drawn in such a way that Sister Aloysius can be seen alternately as a courageous women standing up against a corrupt institution in defense of the defenseless, or as a narrow-minded inquisitor, unable to comprehend that, in the words of Father Flynn, "there are circumstances beyond your knowledge." The play was made into a film in 2008 starring Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
| Size | | Length: | 58 pages | | Height: | 8.5 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 4.0 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Even as DOUBT holds your conscious attention as an intelligently measured debate play, it sends off stealth charges that go deeper emotionally."
(11/24/2004)
"[A] provocative study of the tenuous nature of faith and the inconstancy of justice."
(12/16/2004)
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