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Doubt: A Parable is a 2004 play by John Patrick Shanley (ISBN 1-55936-276-6) set in a Bronx Catholic school during the fall of 1964. Image File history File links Doubt. ...
Image File history File links Doubt. ...
2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
John Patrick Shanley (born in 1950) is a playwright from the Bronx. ...
The Bronx is one of the five boroughs of United States. ...
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Synopsis "What do you do when you're not sure?" Father Flynn asks the audience in the opening line of this play, setting the stage for a story of suspicion and moral certainty.
His colleague, Sister Aloysius, is an old-school nun who insists that her students not be coddled: "Every easy choice today will have its consequence tomorrow. Mark my words." Flynn, following the Second Vatican Council's directive, believes the clergy should be more accessible to the parish and be thought of "as members of their family." The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, or Vatican II, (Vatican two) was an Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church opened under Pope John XXIII in 1962 and closed under Pope Paul VI in 1965. ...
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. These two schools of thought come into direct conflict when Aloysius suspects Flynn of "interfering" with Donald Muller, the school's first black student. Sister James, an inexperienced but enthusiastic young nun who has been an indirect witness to the dealings between Flynn and Muller, is subsequently consulted by Aloysius. When James reluctantly reports smelling alcohol on Donald's breath after a visit with Flynn, she sets the play's central conflict into motion. The fourth character, Mrs. Muller (Donald's mother) provides yet another perspective when she's brought in to discuss the situation with Aloysius.
In a verbal Battle of the Titans, Aloysius confronts Flynn with her suspicions, demanding his confession and resignation. He refuses, denying any wrong-doing. When Aloysius claims to have evidence, he appears to crumple and she exits, seemingly victorious. In Greek mythology, the Titanomachy, or War of the Titans, was the eleven-year series of battles fought between the two races of deities long before the existence of mankind: the Titans, fighting from Mount Othrys, and the Olympians, who would come to reign on Mount Olympus. ...
In the final scene, we learn that Father Flynn has been transferred to another parish and received a promotion. Donald Muller has lost his protector, Sister James has lost her joy and Sister Aloysius has finally come to experience doubt.
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Productions The New York production was performed in one act, running approximately 90 minutes. In interviews, the cast said the second act was what took place when the audience left the theatre and began to discuss their differing opinions of the events - some agreeing with Aloysius and other siding with Flynn. Upon publication, playwright Shanley changed the title from Doubt to Doubt: A Parable.
Doubt opened off-Broadway at the Manhattan Theatre Club on November 23, 2004, and transferred to the Walter Kerr Theatre on Broadway in March of 2005. When it closed July 2, 2006, it had run 525 performances and 25 previews, making it the fifth longest running play on Broadway in the preceding ten years. Off-Broadway plays or musicals are performed in New York City in smaller theatres than Broadway, but larger than Off-Off-Broadway, productions. ...
The Manhattan Theatre Club is a theatrical company which produces new plays and musicals at the Biltmore Theatre and the New York City Center. ...
November 23 is the 327th day of the year (328th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 38 days remaining. ...
The Walter Kerr Theatre is a Broadway theatre. ...
Broadway theatre[1] is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ...
2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
July 2 is the 183rd day of the year (184th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 182 days remaining. ...
The four original cast members were Cherry Jones as Sister Aloysius, Brían F. O'Byrne as Father Flynn, Heather Goldenhersh as Sister James, and Adriane Lenox as Mrs. Muller. Cherry Jones (born on November 21, 1956, in Paris, Tennessee) is an American actress. ...
Adriane Lenox (born August 11, 1956 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an African-American actress. ...
The play and its off-Broadway and Broadway performances have garnered numerous awards, including the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Both Shanley and Jones won Obie Awards. After reaching Broadway, it was nominated for eight 2005 Tony Awards; and remarkably, all four original cast members received nominations. Doubt won four Tony Awards, including Best Play, Best Direction of a Play for Doug Hughes and acting awards for Jones and Lenox. The Pulitzer Prize for Drama was first awarded in 1918. ...
The Obie Awards, short for Off-Broadway Theater Awards, are annual awards bestowed by the newspaper The Village Voice on theater artists performing in New York City. ...
What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ...
A Tony Award for Best Play has been awarded since 1947. ...
A Tony Award for Best Play has been awarded since 1947. ...
In 2006 Ron Eldard, Eileen Atkins and Jena Malone joined the cast, replacing O'Byrne, Jones, and Goldenhersh, respectively. Ronald J. Eldard (Born: February 20, 1965 in Long Island, New York, New York) is an American film actor. ...
Dame Eileen June Atkins, DBE (born June 16, 1934 in London, England) is a British writer and an award-winning film and theatre actress. ...
Emile Hirsch as Francis Doyle and Malone as Margie Flynn in The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys Jena Malone (born November 21, 1984) is an American actress. ...
Doubt made its Asian debut in Singapore on 21 March 2006 and opened in the Philippines on 2 June 2006. Roman Polanski is slated to direct the play in Paris late in 2006. In April 2007 it will be staged in Warsaw, Poland, at Polonia Theatre. Shanley has indicated in interviews that he will be directing the film version. March 21 is the 80th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (81st in leap years). ...
2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
June 2 is the 153rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (154th in leap years), with 212 days remaining. ...
2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Roman Polański at Cannes with Adrien Brody, 2002 Roman Polański (born August 18, 1933) is a Franco-Polish film director and actor. ...
Part of the Paris skyline with from left to right: Montparnasse Tower, Eiffel Tower, and in the background, towers of neighboring La Défense. ...
During the play's New York run, local television channels aired a series of promotional spots (designed and created by Gary Keenan and Felix Thoo of Creativegroup) to advertise the production.
Bibliography - John Patrick Shanley: Doubt: A Parable: New York: Theatre Communications: 2005: ISBN 1-55936-276-6
See also Pedophilia, ephebophilia, romantic or sexual relations between adults and children, and child sexual abuse have been important themes of a number of works written for the stage. ...
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