John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt: A Parable is a theatre experience not to be missed! Running from July 28 to August 15 at the Auto & General Theatre on the Square in Sandton, the provocative play features Fiona Ramsay, Janna Ramos-Violante, Mwenya Kabwe, and James MacEwan (who returns from Los Angeles). It is directed by award-winning actor, director and theatre maker, James Cuningham.Set in 1964 in the St. Nicholas Church School in the Bronx, the play centres on the ultra-stern Sister Aloysius Beauvier who believes that a priest has done something terribly inappropriate to one of the students – a 12-year-old altar boy named Donald Muller, the school’s only African American student.

She recruits a young, naive nun (Sister James) to assist her in monitoring the suspicious yet charismatic Father Flynn. Doubt is a provocative and gripping story of suspicion and suspense! It will leave audiences spellbound and questioning.

The play was originally staged off-Broadway at the Manhattan Theatre Club in 2004 and transferred to the Walter Kerr Theatre on Broadway in 2005. It was directed by Roman Polanski for the 2006 run in Paris and premiered at the Tricycle Theatre in London in 2008.

Doubt has garnered numerous awards including a Tony Award for best play, a Pulitzer Prize for Drama and a Drama Desk Award for Best New Play in 2005. This popular theatre gem has been produced and performed all over the world. It was subsequently adapted and turned into an Academy Award-nominated movie, starring Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour.

Tickets can be booked through the theatre’s box office at 011 883 8606, via Strictly Tickets at 082 553 5901 or online at www.ticket.co.za