Doubt - by John Patrick Stanley

The Story

Doubt can be a bond as powerful and sustaining as certainty.

“With not a word out of place, this play is a modern masterpiece bound to be a classic”.

Winner of the 2005 Tony and Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Doubt is, by turns, funny, shocking, stimulating, and ultimately, wise. Capturing the conflicts within St. Nicholas Church and its school in the Bronx in 1964, the play revolves around Sister Aloysius Beauvier, a rigidly doctrinaire school principal in her fifties who strictly controls both the staff and her students.

With absolute certainty, the most celebrated new American play in recent memory is Bronx-born John Patrick Shanley's Doubt. The play, which chronicles the suspicions that a Catholic school principal has about the possible sexual misconduct of her resident priest in 1964, opened to critical and popular acclaim at the Manhattan Theatre Club. It transferred to the Walter Kerr Theatre in the  spring  of 2005 (marking Shanley's Broadway debut) and promptly won the Pulitzer Prize. Since then Doubt has picked up enough "Best New Play" awards to decorate a Christmas tree—the NY Drama Critics Circle, the Lucille Lortel, the Drama League, the Outer Critics Circle, the Obie and the Drama Desk, and the Tony.