FOLLOWING up on their well received staging of Lost In Yonkers the Torch Players present Doubt by John Patrick Shanley.
This play was awarded the Pulitzer Prize as well as Tony, Drama Desk, New York Drama Critics’ Circle and Lucille Lortel awards for Best Play.
John Patrick Shanley delves into the murky shadows of moral certainty, the characters always balancing on the thin line between truth and consequences. As audience members, you are made to examine your own scepticism and judgments surrounding individuals and institutions. Doubt is a superb, compelling drama that will raise questions and answer none, leaving the audience to grapple with the discomfort of their uncertainties.
Doubt is set in St. Nicholas school in the Bronx in 1964, “What do you do when you’re not sure?” So asks Father Flynn, the progressive and much-loved priest at the school. Sr. Aloysius, the school principal, worries that the priest is having troubled thoughts and when she learns that Father Flynn has taken a special interest in the first, and only, black student in the school, she is quick to act.
She 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.” While Father Flynn urges the congregation to accept doubt and its role in human life; Sister Aloysius reacts and seeks to embody its contrary – certainty.
Doubt is directed by Maurice O’Sullivan, founder of the Torch Players in 1976.
Since its inception The Torch Players have presented over 80 productions in the Belltable, Limerick and at Drama and Arts Festivals throughout the country. The group have qualified for the All-Ireland finals in Athlone on 13 occasions and have won numerous awards for production, design and acting.
The play opens on Wednesday March 9 at Belltable for four nights only.
Tickets at 061 – 953400 or on www.limetreetheatre.ie
