Community Players close season with ‘Doubt, A Parable’

Posted 6/25/15

The Community Players, Rhode Island’s oldest community theatre, will close out their 94th season with “Doubt, A Parable” by John Patrick Shanley. The Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning …

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Community Players close season with ‘Doubt, A Parable’

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The Community Players, Rhode Island’s oldest community theatre, will close out their 94th season with “Doubt, A Parable” by John Patrick Shanley. The Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning drama directed by Eric Barbato opens Friday, July 10 and runs for two weekends through Sunday, July 19. The New York Times calls the play a “tight, absorbing drama” that “sends off emotional stealth charges.” 

Performances are Friday and Saturday evenings at 8 and Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. at Jenks Auditorium (across from McCoy Stadium). Tickets are $15 for adults and $12 for students (with a valid student ID) and may be purchased online at thecommunityplayers.org, reserved by phone at 726-6860, or at the door.

With just four characters, Shanley creates a fast moving and taut drama that critics have described as “passionate, exquisite, important and engrossing.” (Newsday), and “An eloquent and provocative investigation of truth and consequences.” (Time Out NY.)

It’s 1964, in the Bronx and a personable and charismatic priest, Father Flynn, is trying to upend the school’s strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by staunch principal Sister Aloysius. But when Sister James, a naïve young novitiate, shares with Sister Aloysius a suspicion that Father Flynn is paying too much personal attention to a young student, Sister Aloysius sets off on a personal crusade to unearth the truth.

Adapted into the Academy Award nominated film “Doubt” with Meryl Streep and Viola Davis, Shanley’s stage play is a gripping story of suspicion, spiritual faith and the struggle of moral uncertainty. Providence resident Eric Barbato directs the four-person cast, featuring Aubrie Bagdasarian of Bellingham, Mass. as the hopeful young Sister James, Mary Paolino of East Greenwich as the stoic principal Sister Aloysius, Sonya Johner of Boston, Mass. as the boy’s mother Mrs. Muller, and Joe Wilkicki of Cumberland as the suspected Father Flynn.

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