Doubt A Parable

John Patrick Shanley

Paperback (16 Nov 2005)

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Publisher's Synopsis

The hit Broadway play, filmed in 2008 with Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

A Catholic school in the Bronx, 1964. The strong-minded principal has her suspicions that one of her teaching fathers is abusing vulnerable pupils. But without proof, what action should she take?

John Patrick Shanley's play Doubt: A Parable was originally staged off-Broadway at the Manhattan Theatre Club in November 2004. The production transferred to the Walter Kerr Theatre on Broadway in March 2005.

The play won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play.

About the Publisher

Theatre Communications Group

Nick Hern Books is the UK's leading specialist performing arts publisher with over 1,000 plays and theatre books in our catalogue. Our list of plays includes work by many of the UK's preeminent playwrights, as well as some of the most exciting emerging writers. We work with major theatres and theatre companies across the UK and in Ireland to publish new plays alongside their professional premieres, often in the form of a 'programme/text' that combines the functions of theatre programme and playtext. We also publish many classic plays and plays in translation, together with a wide range of authoritative theatre books, many of them written by well-known theatre practitioners.

Book information

ISBN:	9781559362764
Publisher:	Nick Hern Books
Imprint:	Theatre Communications Group
Pub date:	16 Nov 2005
DEWEY:	812.54
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	58
Weight:	110g
Height:	215mm
Width:	139mm
Spine width:	5mm