Monday, February 23, 2009
NaplesNews.com
Review: Gulfshore Playhouse scores with powerhouse production of "Doubt"
The Gulfshore Playhouse hits a home run with its production of "Doubt, A Parable," John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer Prize-winning work that dissects matters of faith, truth and morality. From the first sermon to the last, shuddering admission of doubt, the play is a triumph of acting, directing and staging.
The play is, quite literally, about "doubt," faith, the dangers of moral certainty and the cost of trying to always occupy the moral high ground. Set at a 1964 Catholic school, stern principal Sister Aloysius comes to believe - with absolute surety - that the more liberal Father Flynn has molested a student. Armed only with little more than her rock-solid belief that wrongdoing has been done, Sister Aloysius begins a campaign to destroy Father Flynn.
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FEBRUARY 27, 2009
Collier Citizen
No "Doubt" About It - Go
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FEBRUARY 25, 2009
news-press.com
Theater review: Did he or didn't he? Uncertainty lingers long after the powerful "Doubt"
She tightly purses her lips, folds her hands together and aims her withering glare like it's the all-seeing eye of God.
Sister Aloysius disapproves.
She does that a lot.
Throughout Gulfshore Playhouse's outstanding staging of the drama "Doubt," Sister Aloysius stands as a fierce beacon of propriety, an unyielding wall of old Catholic ways.
That attitude sets the tone for what comes next, when Aloysius trains that cold glare on the popular Father Flynn and accuses him of molesting the Catholic school's only black student.
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February 20, 2009
Fox 4 Morning Blend
Blend's Daily Dish
Gulfshore Playhouse truly brings Southwest Florida professional theatre at its best with their production of "Doubt: a Parable" by John Patrick Shanley. The highly acclaimed drama, stars Tony Nominee Alan Campbell and plays February 18th through March 1st at the Norris Center in Downtown Naples.Gulfshore Playhouse is Naples' first and finest self producing-professional theatre company, currently producing exclusively at the Norris Center in downtown Naples. Gulfshore Playhouse is passionately devoted to creating nationally noteworthy professional theatre - from the powerful and inspiring classics, to innovative new works. It is unwaveringly committed to bringing the best theatre professionals in our country to the stages and the classrooms of Southwest Florida.
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
NaplesNews.com
Gulfshore Playhouse tackles John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer-Prize-winning drama 'Doubt: A Parable'
The only certainty in this play is uncertainty, and that's what draws you in.
Gulfshore Playhouse's production of "Doubt: A parable" by John Patrick Shanley opens at the Norris Center today. Set in a parochial school in the Bronx in 1964, it relates the story of a nun who is convinced that a priest is having improper relations with male students.
"The play is less about scandal and more about the fascinatingly nuanced questions of moral certainty," says Kristen Coury, the director.
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Jan 20, 2009
TheaterMania Inc.
Alan Campbell and Dale Soules to Star in Gulfshore Playhouse's Doubt
Broadway veterans Alan Campbell and Dale Soules will play Father Flynn and Sister Aloysius, respectively, in the Gulfshore Playhouse's production of John Patrick Shanley's Doubt, to run February 18-March 1 in Naples, Florida.
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January 21, 2009
BroadwayWorld.com
Alan Campbell And Dale Soules In Pulitzer Winning 'Doubt'
Gulfshore Playhouse Presents Pulitzer Prize-Winning Drama
Gulfshore Playhouse brings Naples professional theatre at its best with their production of "Doubt: a Parable" by John Patrick Shanley. The highly acclaimed drama plays February 18th through March 1st at the Norris Center in Downtown Naples.
Set in a parochial school in the Bronx in 1964, "Doubt" is a gripping story of suspicion cast on a priest's behavior. The play is less about scandal and more about the fascinatingly nuanced questions of moral certainty.
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21 Jan 2009
Playbill
Campbell and Soules Will Duel in Doubt for Gulfshore Playhouse
Tony nominee Alan Campbell and Dale Soules will star in John Patrick Shanley's award-winning drama Doubt for the Gulfshore Playhouse beginning Feb. 18.
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December 4, 2008
The New York Times
'Doubt' and Doubts of a Workingman
WHEN John Patrick Shanley steps into a Midtown Manhattan hangout known for its theater clientele, few would guess how much he belonged.
There is little about his sure gait, workingman hands or no-nonsense affect that flicks at the artist within, let alone a playwright, often the more delicately wrought of the species. Only the eyes, weakened by glaucoma but working, suggest anything other than a tough guy from the Bronx. And in that gaze he is constantly calibrating everything around him, seeing a great deal and concluding not much.
"It's an important part of my personality that I continually adjudicate, but I never reach a verdict," he explains.
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