One of the finest British actresses of her generation, Maxine Peake will star in a brand-new production of John Patrick Shanley’s award-winning drama, DOUBT a parable, at Theatre Royal Bath’s Ustinov Studio from 7 February – 8 March 2025.

A Catholic school in the Bronx, 1964. Sister Aloysius, the strong-minded principal has her suspicions that one of her teaching fathers is abusing a vulnerable pupil. Without proof, she is forced to take matters into her own hands. As the elements of her investigation come invigoratingly together like clockwork, the gripping story poses fascinatingly nuanced questions of moral certainty.

Maxine Peake is an award-winning actress who shot to fame in Victoria Wood’s Dinnerladies and has appeared in some of the most popular and acclaimed TV series of the last twenty years.

Director Lindsay Posner, one of the UK’s most sought-after directors, returns to Bath fresh from the West End transfers of Noises Off, A View From The Bridge and The Deep Blue Sea.

Twenty years after first being performed off-Broadway, DOUBT a parable has since gone on to huge international acclaim and was filmed in 2008 with Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Further cast and creative team still to be announced.

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