February 24 - March 29, 2009

Montreal English-Language Premiere

By JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY
Directed by MICHELINE CHERVRIER

4 Tony Awards
2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best New Play
Drama Desk Award
Outer Critics Circle Award
Lucille Lortel Foundation Award
Drama League Award
Obie Award

Set in 1964 in a Bronx Catholic school, Doubt centres around an older nun, Sister Aloysius, who does not approve of teachers offering friendship and compassion over the discipline she feels students need in order to face the harsh world. When she suspects a new priest of sexually abusing a student, she is faced with the prospect of charging him with unproven allegations and possibly destroying his career as well as her own. To help build her case, she asks for help from an idealistic young nun, who finds her faith in compassion challenged, and the protective mother of the accused boy, the first black student ever admitted to St. Nicholas.

" Doubt is a lean, potent drama...passionate, exquisite, important and engrossing. Blunt yet subtle, manipulative but full of empathy for all sides, the play is set in 1964 but could not be more timely."
- Newsday

"A superb new drama....Even as Doubt holds your conscious attention as an intelligently measured debate play, it sends off stealth charges that go deeper emotionally. One of the year's ten best."
- New York Times

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