Theatre as Rorschach

Well, Doubt is done (look here for the critic’s view) and we’re moving onto Steve Martin’s adaptation of The Underpants.  But before we leave Mr. Shanley’s tightly constructed piece, there’s an interesting phenomenon that we noticed during the talkbacks.  Many of the audience members who hung around for the talkbacks (and I’d say that we had a [...]

DOUBT by John Patrick Shanley

And after the controversy and vase-shattering of The Goat, Tennessee Rep’s next production is a subtle, intricate, but no less fascinating piece of theatre: Doubt.  This fabulously wrought play is set in a Catholic parish and school in 1964.  The principal, a stern, authoritarian nun named Sister Aloysius, comes to suspect (with growing and fervent certainty) that [...]