Doubt by John Patrick Shanley
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.
JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY is from the Bronx. His plays include Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Savage in Limbo, the dreamer examines his pillow, Four Dogs and a Bone, Beggars in the House of Plenty and Dirty Story. His trilogy Church and State began with Doubt, and continued with Defiance and Storefront Church. For his play Doubt, Mr. Shanley received both the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize. In the arena of film, he has nine films to his credit, most recently Doubt with Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Viola Davis. Doubt, which he also directed, was nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Adapted Screenplay. Other films include Five Corners (Special Jury Prize, Barcelona Film Festival), Alive, Joe Versus The Volcano (which he also directed) and Live From Baghdad for HBO (Emmy nomination). For his script of Moonstruck, he received both the Writers Guild Award and the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. The Writers Guild of America awarded Mr. Shanley the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award in Writing.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781559362764 |
| ISBN 10 | 1559362766 |
| Title | Doubt |
| Author | John Patrick Shanley |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. |
| Year published | 2005-09-15 |
| Number of pages | 120 |
| Prizes | Winner of Best Play, Tony Awards 2005, Winner of Pulitzer Prize for Drama 2005 |
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