Isle of Wight What's On Guide: 2024 Events OnTheWight

Doubt, A Parable

1 – 9 Apr 2022

Theatre

Apollo Theatre

Pyle Street
Newport
PO30 1JT

01983 527267

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Doubt, A Parable

Source https://www.apollo-theatre.org.uk/doubt/

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Based in a Catholic School where one of the nuns suspects a priest of molesting an altar boy - but the question is: did he do it?

Shanley says, 'Doubt requires more courage than conviction does, and more energy; because conviction is a resting place and doubt is infinite.' Sister Aloysius has a passionate certainty that the charismatic Father Flynn may be paying too much attention to St Nicholas School's only black student. The naive and compassionate Sister James is reluctant to accept the truth, while the boy’s mother is all too aware of the injustice and hurdles to be overcome to protect her family. The question hangs in the air at the end of the play - were Sister Aloysius’ concerns justified? ‘Doubt, A Parable’ is a thought-provoking play that will leave you doubting who was right all along.

Tickets £8.50 (£5 student)