DOUBT

The plot of Doubt is based on a few circumstantial details and a lot of intuition, set in 1964 in the St. Nicholas Church School in the Bronx. The ultra-stern Sister Aloysius Beauvier believes that a priest has done something terribly inappropriate to one of the students – a 12-year-old altar boy named Donald Muller, the school’s only African American student. She recruits a young, naive nun (Sister James) to assist her in monitoring the suspicious yet charismatic Father Flynn. 

The play was originally staged off-Broadway at the Manhattan Theatre Club in 2004 and transferred to the Walter Kerr Theatre on Broadway in 2005. It was directed by Roman Polanski for the 2006 run in Paris and premiered at the Tricycle Theatre in London in 2008. Doubt has garnered numerous awards including a Tony Award for Best Play, a Pulitzer Prize for Drama and a Drama Desk Award for Best New Play in 2005. This popular theatre gem has been produced and performed all over the world. It was subsequently adapted and turned into an Academy Award-nominated movie, starring Viola Davis, Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

• Written by: John Patrick Shanley
• Directed by: James Cuningham 
• Cast: Fiona Ramsey, Jana Ramos-Violante, Mwenya Kabwe, James Mac Ewan
• Where: Auto & General Theatre on the Square, Sandton, Johannesburg
• When: 2015