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Posted: 3/31/05 at 6:53pm
Thought I'd get the thread started.
The first one is from Broadway.com:
DOUBT
By Eric Grode
"Doubt is Broadway's most satisfying drama since Copenhagen, a terrific entertainment that challenges and comforts at the same time.
And yet… John Patrick Shanley's intelligent potboiler has grown since its Manhattan Theatre Club run, and not always in a good way. From the very first moments, where Father Flynn (Brìan F. O'Byrne) greets his parish with a newly protracted silence, director Doug Hughes asks us to chew a bit longer on the lessons being offered. Just because these lessons are worth savoring doesn't mean the play benefits from such elongation.
As far as moral inquiries go, Doubt is surprisingly enjoyable. It finds the humor as well as the starch in Sister Aloysius, who believes the heretical "Frosty the Snowman" should be banned from the radio. But Shanley, who's making his long-overdue Broadway debut, is also wrestling with complicated notions of faith and sin. The moral choices that each character makes, the evasions and compromises that so often come with doing the right thing, weigh heavily on the innocent as well as the guilty. And as Shanley cannily points out, differentiating between the two is not always easy."
Seems very positive. I think I'll have to add this one to my list.
For the whole review click the link below.
Broadway.com "Doubt Review"
The first one is from Broadway.com:
DOUBT
By Eric Grode
"Doubt is Broadway's most satisfying drama since Copenhagen, a terrific entertainment that challenges and comforts at the same time.
And yet… John Patrick Shanley's intelligent potboiler has grown since its Manhattan Theatre Club run, and not always in a good way. From the very first moments, where Father Flynn (Brìan F. O'Byrne) greets his parish with a newly protracted silence, director Doug Hughes asks us to chew a bit longer on the lessons being offered. Just because these lessons are worth savoring doesn't mean the play benefits from such elongation.
As far as moral inquiries go, Doubt is surprisingly enjoyable. It finds the humor as well as the starch in Sister Aloysius, who believes the heretical "Frosty the Snowman" should be banned from the radio. But Shanley, who's making his long-overdue Broadway debut, is also wrestling with complicated notions of faith and sin. The moral choices that each character makes, the evasions and compromises that so often come with doing the right thing, weigh heavily on the innocent as well as the guilty. And as Shanley cannily points out, differentiating between the two is not always easy."
Seems very positive. I think I'll have to add this one to my list.
For the whole review click the link below.
Broadway.com "Doubt Review"
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