Doubt -A Parable

Three Stars

Theater: TheatreWorks

Location: 233 Pearl St. Hartford.

Production: Written by John Patrick Shanley. Directed by Steve Campo. Set Design Adrian W. Jones. Costume Design by Elizabeth Flauto. Lighting desting by Matthew Richards. Sound design by J. Hagenbuckle

Running time: 90 minutes, no intermission

Show Times: Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays - 8 p.m. Matinees on Saturdays and Sundays - 2:30 p.m. Extra Sunday evening shows - 7:30 p.m. (later weeks of most runs). Please note there is no Thursday, Nov. 23 performance, due to the Thanksgiving holiday. The show will run through Dec.23.

Tickets: $35, except Friday and Saturday nights, $45, and are unassigned seating. Center reserved seats $10 extra. $10 student rush tickets at showtime with valid ID (subject to availability). For tickets call 527-7838 or visit their Web site at www.theatreworks.org.

ACTOR…CHARACTER

Glynis Bell….Sister Aloysius
Letitia Lange…Sister James
Mark Saturno…Father Brendan Flynn
Cherene Snow…Mrs. Muller


Doubt, A Parable

Time is such an odd construct. Sometimes, like when you are stuck in traffic and late for work, a minute can seem like forever. But, when you are fully engaged in a stimulating conversation with a dear friend, hours can fly and seem like only minutes.

And then, occasionally, one can feel both experiences simultaneously. So it is with “Doubt, A Parable,” the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play by John Patrick Shanley.

A 90 minute one act play, it is so tightly-constructed and well-conceived that it feels at once almost over before it begins, and at the same time leaves one with haunting ideas that keep resurfacing.

The drama is set in 1964 at a St. Nicholas school in Brooklyn. Sister Aloysius, played with passionate conviction by Glynis Bell, is the school’s principal. She has unshakable suspicions that the priest, Father Brendan Flynn, charsmatically played by Mark Saturno, may be engaging in inappropriate behavior with the new black student.

Letitia Lange plays the young nun Sister James, who Sister Aloysisus interrogates about Father Flynn. Lange reaches a fine balance about her struggle to be a strict nun, striking terror in her students as the principal ditates and her love of teaching.