John Patrick Shanley’s powerful play won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and 2005 Tony Award for Best Play. Marion Potts directs a new production for STC, starring Pamela Rabe as Sister Aloysisus, the headmistress of St Nicholas Church School. Set in the Bronx in 1964, the severe, rigidly conservative nun accuses a progressive parish priest of inappropriate behaviour with the school’s sole Black student, Donald Muller. The charismatic Father Flynn denies the allegation. Sam Reid plays Flynn, with Zindzi Okenyo as Donald’s mother and Shannen Alyce Quan as the impressionable younger nun, Sister James. Is Flynn guilty? Doubt wrestles with the gaps between truth and faith.

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The Bronx, NY, 1964. Sister Aloysius (Rabe), the iron-fisted headmistress of St. Nicholas Church School suspects a progressive priest of inappropriate behaviour with the school’s sole Black student, Donald Muller. The charismatic Father Flynn denies the allegations entirely.

In a brand-new production of John Patrick Shanley’s titanic drama, powerhouse Australian director Marion Potts makes a grand return to Sydney Theatre Company, joining forces with a quartet of the nation’s finest actors, including Zindzi Okenyo (Director of Purpose) and Shannen Alyce Quan (The Dictionary of Lost Words), to wrestle with the gaps between belief and truth.

Twenty years on from winning the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best Play, Doubt has “never been more urgent” (Variety) than it is today.