DOUBT a parable

One of the finest British actresses of her generation, Maxine Peake, stars in this new production of John Patrick Shanley’s award-winning drama.

 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 shot to fame in Victoria Wood’s dinnerladies and has appeared in some of the most popular TV series of the last twenty years including Channel 4’s Shameless, Silk, The Village, The Hollow Crown, Inside No. 9 and Black Mirror on the BBC, as well as portraying the notorious Myra Hindley in ITV’s See No Evil. On stage, she has played the title role in Hamlet, with other iconic credits including Miss Julie and Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire. 

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.

After first being performed on Broadway in 2005, DOUBT a parable has since gone on to huge international acclaim, and was filmed in 2008 with Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman.