DOUBT
RIVER CITY REP opens its third season with John Patrick Shanley’s acclaimed drama, DOUBT. The play is one of the most awarded shows in recent Broadway history receiving four Tony Awards, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the New York Critics’ Circle Award, the Lucille Lortel Award and the Drama Desk Award, all for Best Play of the 2005 Broadway season.
The provocative play, set against the background of a Catholic school in 1964, is the story of a conservative, traditional nun faced with a difficult and troubling decision. Should she voice concerns about a young, modern-thinking priest who has recently arrived at the school….even if she’s not entirely certain of the truth? Just as Arthur Miller’s THE CRUCIBLE spoke directly to the era of 1950s America, Shanley’s DOUBT speaks to our modern times with a drama that explores the delicate balance between gossip and truth, discipline and compassion and certainty and doubt. The nun seizes a situation, fueled by innuendos, that casts suspicions on the priest and the two enter into a struggle of what is true and what is a lie.
BARBARA ACKER and LOGAN SLEDGE star as Sister Aloysius and Father Flynn.
CHARITY SCHUBERT and ANGELIQUE FEASTER round out the cast as Sister James, a young nun caught in the middle of the struggle between Aloysius and Flynn; and the mother of a student who sets off the rumors of the priest’s character.
DOUBT has been recently made into a film starring Meryl Streep, Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams. The movie is due for wide release in December.
Patric McWilliams directs with Light Design by TRISTAN DECKER and Costume and Set Design by McWilliams.
The show opens NOVEMBER 12 with additional performances NOVEMBER 13, 14, 15 all at 7:30 p.m. and has a 3 p.m. matinee on NOVEMBER 16. Performances will be at THE CAPRI THEATRE, 620 Milam Street in downtown Shreveport.
Box Office opens Monday, October 27th and is open Monday - Saturday 11
am - 5 pm
For reservations and information please call 318-868-5888
