Doubt: A Parable by John Patrick Shanley

"Doubt can be a bond as powerful and sustaining as certainty..." so begins the award winning play Doubt with the opening sermon by Father Flynn. Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award, "Doubt" is a gripping story of suspicion cast on a priest's behavior that is less about scandal than about fascinatingly nuanced questions of moral certainty in 1964. In this brilliant and powerful drama, Sister Aloysius, a Bronx school principal, takes matters into her own hands when she suspects the young Father Flynn of improper relations with one of the male students.


About the Author: John Patrick Shanley (born Oct 3, 1950) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and director. He was born in The Bronx, New York City, and was graduated from New York University. Shanley won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen for his script for the 1987 film, Moonstruck. In 2005, Shanley's play Doubt: A Parable was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Drama Desk Award and Tony Award for Best Play. Doubt: A Parable, is featured in The Fourth Wall, a book of photographs by Amy Arbus in which Shanley also wrote the foreword. Shanley also directed a film version of Doubt (2008) starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams and Viola Davis. Today, Shanley resides in New York.