Tickets Available for 'Doubt'

It is 1964 in the Bronx, New York. President Kennedy's assassination was the previous year as was Martin Luther King's march on Washington. Sister Aloysius Beauvier serves as principal of St. Nicholas Catholic School and runs things with a strict, authoritarian hand. She is a traditionalist, bemoaning the progressive changes in society and within the church itself.

Father Brendan Flynn is a priest in St. Nicholas Church and teaches religion and basketball for the school. He is an idealist, looking to the future with eyes toward changing the image that the church puts forth to the community. He is in favor of a more personal touch and wants to make an almost familial connection with the neighborhood surrounding the parish.

These two church leaders do not see eye to eye to begin with, but things take a dramatic turn when Sister Aloysius becomes convinced that Father Flynn's loving approach to students may have crossed a dark and sinister line. Suspicion mounts, battle lines are drawn, and the audience gets to be a fly on the wall as they are pulled between competing uncertainties. What do you do when you do not know? How do you cope with Doubt?

The Lewis Lane Players proudly present the winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play, John Patrick Shanley's DOUBT: A PARABLE. There will be two performances, on Friday, May 20 at 7:00 pm and Saturday, May 21 at 5:30 pm. Both shows will be at the Lewis Lane Players' home "black box" theater inside the multipurpose room of the Havre de Grace Activity Center, 351 Lewis Lane, Havre de Grace. Tickets are $10 for adults, $8 for children under 12 and seniors (55+). You can purchase tickets online today at the Havre de Grace Drama Guild's website, or in person starting Thursday, May 5 inside the Parks and Recreation Office at the HdG Activity Center during normal business hours (M-F, 9am-4:30pm).

Questions may be directed to hdgdrama@yahoo.com or (443)987-4395.

Praise for "Doubt":
"All the elements come invigoratingly together like clockwork in John Patrick Shanley's provocative new play, DOUBT, a gripping story of suspicion cast on a priest's behavior that is less about scandal than about fascinatingly nuanced questions of moral certainty. Something rare for this season: a laudable new American play." —Variety.

"How splendid it feels to be trusted with such passionate, exquisite ambiguity unlike anything we have seen from this prolific playwright so far. Blunt yet subtle, manipulative but full of empathy for all sides, the play is set in 1964 but could not be more timely. In just ninety fast-moving minutes, Shanley creates four blazingly individual people. DOUBT is a lean, potent drama…passionate, exquisite, important and engrossing." —NY Newsday.

"A beautifully balanced drama. Shanley is a writer working at the top of his craft, making the most of a muted but evocative palette in the pursuit of truth's shadows. Here, for the first time in a long time, is a play that is about something." —Chicago Tribune.

"An eloquent and provocative investigation of truth and consequences. A gripping mystery, tightly written." —Time Out NY.