‘Doubt’ Broadway Review: Amy Ryan & Liev Schreiber Resurrect A Modern Classic
deadline.comTime has tipped the scales a bit in the did-he-or-didn’t-he question at the heart of John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2004 play Doubt: A Parable, opening tonight in a Roundabout Theatre Company revival at the Todd Haimes Theatre.
Since the play about a possibly child-molesting priest made its Off Broadway debut 20 years ago, real-world events and ugly truths have lessened both its shock value and the likelihood that audiences will side with the man in black.
In short, “Yeah, he did it” is a much more probable audience response when the tough-as-nails Sister Aloysius begins to suspect, on the flimsiest of evidence, that the charming and beloved Father Flynn has been abusing an altar boy.
Our inclination to immediately side with the crusty, suspicious nun might well upend the entire premise of Shanley’s play, which is, after all, titled Doubt, not Certitude.
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