Award Champion 'Doubt' S. Florida Premiere

Caldwell Theatre Company 

ROCKS YOUR WORLD 

With Pulitzer Prize-Winning 

DOUBT

By John Patrick Shanley 

Caldwell Theatre Company has a reputation for staging award-winning, provocative theatrical presentations, and it lives up to its professional standards by inaugurating its new home, The Count de Hoernle Theatre this coming December with the four-time Tony Award-Winning DOUBT, A Parable, by John Patrick Shanley. 

Making its South Florida Premiere featuring Pat Nesbit as Sister Aloysius, DOUBT kicks off Caldwell's first season (the theater's 33^rd season in Boca Raton) in its permanent home with John Patrick Shanley's parable, the story about a nun at a grade school in the Bronx who suspects that a priest is abusing a student.  DOUBT illustrates a spiritual and moral dilemma for Sister Aloysius (whose name, Aloysius, from the Old German, means famous warrior), and will be directed by Michael Hall. 

Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and four Tony Awards (nominated for eight), including Best Play in 2005, DOUBT takes its audience on Sister Aloysius' moral rollercoaster ride that raises the ethical question, What do you do when you're not sure?   

Doubt is thought's despair; despair is personality's doubt … Doubt and despair … belong to completely different spheres; different sides of the soul are set in motion … Despair is an expression of the total personality, doubt only of thought.

–        Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), from "Balance Between Esthetic and Ethical"

 

SOUTH FLORIDA PREMIERE

December 2, 2007 – January 6, 2008

Doubt

A Parable

By John Patrick Shanley 

A Bronx Catholic school in 1964 sets the stage for this provocative and deeply moving winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize.  Sister Aloysius isn't sure whether a priest at their grade school is acting appropriately with children in her charge.  Faced with a Hobson's choice of speaking up without all the evidence or keeping quiet while a child may be in jeopardy, this four time Tony Award-winner explores the "What do you do when you're not sure?" dilemma, pitting gut instincts against compassionate concern.  "Even as Doubt holds your conscious attention as an intelligently measured debate play," The New York Times said, "it sends off emotional stealth charges that go far deeper."   

PERFORMANCE INFORMATION FOR DOUBT

 

Previews:              December 2 (2PM & 7PM), December 4 (8PM), December 5 (2PM & 8PM), December 6 (8PM)

Opens:                  December 7, 2007 (8PM)

Evenings:              Tuesdays through Saturdays at 8PM

Matinees:              Wednesdays and Sundays at 2PM

Additional              Saturdays at 2PM on December 22, December 29

Performances:                  & January 5

Sundays at 7PM on December 2, December 9

& December 16

Student Rush             $10, available one-half hour prior to curtain with a valid, fulltime     

Tickets:                  student ID and            class schedule

Box Office:                 877-245-7432 or 561-241-7432. 

Group Sales:              561-995-2333 – Group discounts available.  Call for details.

TICKETS:                 Previews:  $32 & $36.  Regular Tickets:  $36 & $42. 

Opening Night Gala on December 7:  $55

New Year's Eve on December 31, 2007 at 5PM and at 9PM:  $42 & $48

 

NO PERFORMANCES ON DECEMBER 25, 2007 OR JANUARY 1, 2008 

 

Caldwell Theatre Company

7873 N. Federal Highway

Boca Raton, FL 33487

BOX OFFICE:  561-241-7432

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