Doubt, a Parable” by John Patrick Shanley Is Presented by Arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., in New York
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44th Season • 421st Production SEGERSTROM STAGE / OCTOBER 19 - NOVEMBER 18, 2007 David Emmes Martin Benson PRODUCING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR ARTISTIC DIRECTOR presents DOUBT A PARABLE BY John Patrick Shanley Thomas Buderwitz Angela Balogh Calin Lonnie Raphael Alcaraz SCENIC DESIGN COSTUME DESIGN LIGHTING DESIGN Tom Cavnar Jeff Gifford Randall K. Lum* SOUND DESIGN PRODUCTION MANAGER STAGE MANAGER DIRECTED BY Martin Benson Jean and Tim Weiss, HONORARY PRODUCERS Originally produced by the Manhattan Theatre Club on November 23, 2004 Originally produced on Broadway by Carole Shorenstein Hays, MTC Productions, Roger Berlind and Scott Rudin March 31, 2005 “Doubt, a parable” by John Patrick Shanley is presented by arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., in New York Doubt, a parable • SOUTH COAST REPERTORY P1 CAST OF CHARACTERS (In order of appearance) Father Brendan Flynn ........................................................ James Joseph O’Neil* Sister Aloysius Beauvier .......................................................... Linda Gehringer* Sister James ................................................................................. Rebecca Mozo* Mrs. Muller .................................................................................. Kimberly Scott* SETTING St. Nicholas, a Catholic church and school in the Bronx, New York, 1964. LENGTH Approximately one hour and 30 minutes with no intermission. PRODUCTION STAFF Dramaturg ....................................................................... Megan Monaghan Casting .................................................................................. Joanne DeNaut Assistant Stage Manager ..................................................... Chrissy Church* Assistant Director ........................................................................ Vince Tycer Production Assistant ........................................................... Kristin Calhoun Stage Management Intern ........................................................... Wendy Leef Assistant Lighting Designer ............................................... Karyn Lawrence Deck Crew ................................................................................. Emily Kettler Please refrain from unwrapping candy or making other noises that may disturb surrounding patrons. The use of cameras and recorders in the theatre is prohibited. Smoking is not permitted anywhere in the theatre. Cellular phones, beepers and watch alarms should be turned off or set to non-audible mode during the performance. * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers. Media Partner Official Airline P2 SOUTH COAST REPERTORY • Doubt, a parable When In Doubt — or, When? In ‘Doubt’ BY MEGAN MONAGHAN Lyndon Johnson has been in the civil rights workers disappear in Philadelphia, Mississippi White House for nearly a year, on June 21; their murdered bodies are discovered on Au- 1964.waging his War on Poverty. gust 4, and responsibility for the crime is ultimately laid Hello, Dolly! is the latest Broadway hit, the game show at the feet of local law enforcement officials. On July 2 “Jeopardy!” and the holiday special “Rudolph the Red- President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act outlawing Nosed Reindeer” make their TV debuts, and Beatlemania racial segregation in schools and other public places. is in full swing — with the brand new Rolling Stones Harlem erupts in race riots a few weeks later; they last for coming up fast behind them. The first Ford Mustangs six days, followed a month later by similar riots in are rolling off the Detroit assembly line. Cassius Clay is Philadelphia with hundreds injured and many more ar- the heavyweight champion of the world, and the St. rests. Louis Cardinals defeat the New York Yankees to win the Gender culture is also in a state of great upheaval. World Series. The Feminine Mystique, published in 1963, triggered the Walter Cronkite is in the CBS Evening News an- second wave of the feminist movement (following the chor chair. Among the stories he covers night by night: first wave that established female suffrage in the 1920s). Khruschev is deposed, and Brezhnev The second wave brought traditional replaces him as Soviet Premier. John- feminine roles permanently into ques- son, now on the campaign trail, out- tion and sought an end to gender- lines his vision of the Great Society. here are two based discrimination. During this The U.S. and the U.S.S.R. are deeply ways to slide same year the Vatican condemns the engaged in the Space Race throughout easily through female oral contraceptive, commercial- 1964. Cronkite’s gravitas provides T ly available in the U.S. since 1960. some counterweight against the na- life; to believe Even the Roman Catholic tion’s uncertainty about its future, still everything or to Church is traversing unknown territory resonating from the epicenter of the doubt everything. in 1964. The Second Vatican Council November 1963 assassination of Presi- conducts its third session in the fall, dent Kennedy. The Warren Commis- Both ways save us under the new leadership of Pope Paul sion report on the Federal investiga- from thinking. VI following the death of Pope John tion of the assassination is released in – Alfred Korzybski, XXIII. Vatican II would institute major September 1964. One can only specu- philosopher and cultural changes, foremost among late about how many Americans found them the new practice of celebrating relief in the report’s explanations, and scientist, 1879-1950 Mass and all the sacraments in the ver- how many had their doubts further nacular language of the people instead aroused by its contents. of using its ancient Latin text. All ele- In the first major demonstrations against the Viet- ments and moments of the Mass were made more visible nam War on May 2, 1964, hundreds of students march to the people, to encourage their understanding and par- through Times Square and the streets of San Francisco, ticipation; formerly “secret” prayers were now spoken or with additional demonstrations in Seattle, Boston, and sung aloud. A ritual that had only changed incrementally Madison, Wisconsin displaying the nation’s mounting over two thousand years of Church history was suddenly doubt about the worth and outcome of that war. After revised overnight — or so it must have seemed to many the Gulf of Tonkin attacks, Congress grants President lay and ordained Catholics. Johnson broad war powers, setting a precedent we have In 1964, the building plans for the World Trade seen put to use in the present day. (In the following Center were unveiled and construction began. For many years, the veracity of the Gulf of Tonkin incident would of us reading this, the destruction of those towers be called into question.) By the end of the year, a total of marked a turning point in our own lives, stripping away 23,000 U.S. “military advisors” are stationed in Vietnam. any final belief in our safety and our nation’s security and There is no stability to be found in the changing establishing an irrevocable doubt that permeates our landscape of race relations in America in 1964. Three days. Doubt, a parable •SOUTH COAST REPERTORY P3 Artist Biographies in the Country and The Dresser at Antaeus The- LINDA GEHRINGER* atre Company. She also appeared in the Holly- Sister Aloysius Beauvier wood Food Chain production of I Capture the has appeared at SCR in Ham- Castle for which she was nominated for an Ova- let, The Piano Teacher, A tion Award for Best Actress. Film and television Naked Girl on the Appian credits include Zerophilia, Headless Horseman, Way, The Retreat from The Water Hole and “Medium.” She earned her Moscow, The Last Night of BFA from Rutgers University, and studied at The Ballyhoo, A Delicate Balance, Globe in London. Getting Frankie Married — and Afterwards, Rel- atively Speaking, All My Sons, Hold Please, Arca- JAMES JOSEPH O’NEIL* dia and Good as New, among others. She re- Father Brendan Flynn cently appeared at the Atlantic Theater Company in the New York premiere of The Intelligent De- is making his SCR debut. sign of Jenny Chow, which had its world pre- Theatre credits include Off- miere at SCR. She has played leading roles in Broadway productions of Te n theatres across the country including Arena Unknowns at Lincoln Center Stage, Huntington Theatre Company, Center Theater, Look Back in Anger Stage, Berkshire Theatre Festival, New York Stage at Classic Stage Company and and Film, Mark Taper Forum, La Jolla Playhouse, The Hired Man at 47th Street Theatre. Regional Laguna Playhouse, Ojai Playwrights Festival and credits include Present Laughter, A Month in the seven seasons at Dallas Theater Center. She County and Heartbreak House at Huntington holds an MFA from the University of Minnesota Theatre Company; iWitness at Mark Taper which she attended on a Guthrie Fellowship and Forum, King Lear and She Stoops to Conquer at has won numerous critical awards. Her televi- Center Stage; Antony & Cleopatra, As You Like It, sion roles include Fontana on “Evening Shade”; Romeo & Juliet, Henry IV, Dancing at Lughnasa, guest starring roles on “Women’s Murder Club,” Macbeth and The Taming of the Shrew at The “Without a Trace,” “Gilmore Girls,” “Cold Case,” Old Globe; and Much Ado about Nothing and “The West Wing,” “Frasier,” and “Law & Order: Hamlet at Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Film Criminal Intent”; recurring roles on “Ally and television credits include Zodiac, Acts of McBeal,” “The Division” and “Dallas” and the film Worship, “Numb3rs,” “Charmed,”