Doubt, A Parable is one of the most acclaimed plays in recent memory. When the play premiered on Broadway it won 4 Tony Awards including Best Play, named Best Play by the New York Drama Critics Circle, Best New Play (Drama Desk Awards) and Outstanding Play (Lucille Lortel Awards). Doubt, A Parable won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

The subsequent Hollywood film starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Viola Davis, received 4 Oscar and 3 BAFTA nominations.

Now Doubt, A Parable, in which a Catholic school principal questions a priest’s ambiguous relationship with a troubled young student, got its first London revival in 10 years at Southwark Playhouse, London in the Large theatre space September 2017.

What do you do when you’re not sure? So asks Father Flynn, the progressive and beloved priest at the St. Nicholas Church School in the Bronx, in his sermon. It’s 1964, and things are changing, to the chagrin of rigid principal Sister Aloysius. However, when an unconscionable accusation is levelled against the Father, Sister Aloysius realises that the only way to get justice is to create it herself. And as for the truth of the matter? As Father Flynn says, doubt can be a bond as powerful and sustaining as certainty. In stunning prose, John Patrick Shanley delves into the murky shadows of moral certainty, his characters always balancing on the thin line between truth and consequences. Doubt, A Parable is an exquisite, potent drama that raises questions and answer none, leaving the audience to grapple with the discomfort of their uncertainties.

OFF WEST END AWARD NOMINATIONS
 | WINNER – Jo Martin – FEMALE PERFORMANCE IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A PLAY

MALE PERFORMANCE IN A PLAY – Jonathan Chambers

, FEMALE PERFORMANCE IN A PLAY – Stella Gonet
, FEMALE PERFORMANCE IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A PLAY – Clare Latham, DIRECTOR – Ché Walker