Award Champion 'Doubt' S. Florida Premiere
By: Beau Higgins May. 03, 2007
Caldwell Theatre Company
ROCKS YOUR WORLD
With Pulitzer Prize-Winning
DOUBT
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 33rd 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
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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