Prize-winning play to open at South Coast Repertory

The 2005 Pulitzer Prize-winning play for drama, “Doubt: A Parable” opens Friday and will be performed through Nov. 18 at South Coast Repertory Theater.

Written by John Patrick Shanley, the play stars Linda Gehringer as Sister Aloysius, a steadfast nun who believes in tutelage and discipline. According to Aloysius, fear is a means to discipline. By contrast, Father Flynn, played by James Joseph O’Neil, is an easy-going priest who wants students to like him. When Aloysius gets word of a possible inappropriate friendship between Flynn and a student, she plays detective and judge.

The play unfolds as a mystery, with no certain answers as opinions seem to guide what each audience member interprets as truth.

— Daniel Tedford