2005 Pulitzer Prize- winning Doubt (it also won the Tony Award as Best Play in the same year) is a riveting exploration of paranoia and suspicion in the Catholic Church. “What do you do when you’re not sure?” Father Flynn asks the audience in the opening line of this play, setting the stage for a story of suspicion and moral certainty.

Sharyn Twigg and Rebecca Noble star in Doubt

Set in a Bronx parochial school in 1964 – just as the Vatican II reforms begin to transfigure the Church – evidence of a priest’s wrongdoing comes to light. Sister Aloysius, a strict school Principal and traditionalist nun, faces the decision of a lifetime: Does she openly accuse a priest and give voice to her fear of his sinful actions or does she bury her suspicions and leave room for doubt? This intense and personal power struggle between Sister Aloysius and Father Flynn ultimately calls into question both faith and justice in the shadows of this cloistered institution.

John Patrick Shanley's drama is simple in outline, complex in resonance. The play thwarts all our comfortable assumptions...... Time Magazine.

Doubt is directed by Jan Paterson and stars David Nicoll, Catherine Taylor, Rebecca Noble and Sharyn Twigg.

Season: 13-28 July 2007

Public nights are 20, 21, 27 and 28 July 2007. Bookings at the Ipswich Visitor Info Centre 3281 0555

by arrangement with George Lane, Creative Artists Agency, New York USA