Chichester Festival Theatre have announced that a new production of John Patrick Shanley’s  Pulitzer Award-winning DOUBT: A Parable will headline the venue’s winter 2021-22 season.

The piece is directed by Lia Williams and will star Monica Dolan and Sam Spruell in their Chichester debuts, running from 22 January – 5  February 2022.

St Nicholas Roman Catholic Church and School, the Bronx, New York, 1964. 

Sister Aloysius Beauvier. School principal. Driven by fierce conviction and moral certainty.  Unafraid of confrontation.  

Sister James. Inspired by the joy of teaching; devoted to her pupils. Impulsive, chaste and  impressionable. Eager to believe the best of everyone.  

Father Brendan Flynn. Charismatic preacher and teacher; intent on bringing the Church  closer to the community. Working class, basketball player, wears his fingernails long.

Mrs Muller. Mother of Douglas, 12-year-old pupil and altar boy.  

Suspicion. Certainty. Judgement. And Doubt. 

Doubt will be designed by Joanna Scotcher, with lighting by Paul Keogan, and music and sound by Melanie Pappenheim and Giles Perring.

This revival, along with the return of Chichester Festival Youth Theatre’s highly-acclaimed Pinocchio from 18 December 2021-1 January 2022, can be seen alongside an array of visiting drama, dance, comedy, family shows and music for all tastes and ages. 

These include the Birmingham Rep/National Theatre anniversary production of Ayub Khan Din’s East Is East; Noël Coward’s Private Lives with Patricia  Hodge and Nigel Havers; the new stage adaptation of The Good Life with  Rufus Hound and Preeya Kalidas; the West End hit The Play What I Wrote; and new comedy Two Cigarettes in the Dark with Penelope Keith. 

Entertainment for families includes new pop musical Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World and Michael  Morpurgo’s Private Peaceful. 

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