Stage Notes from Director Stephen Rothman
Director Stephen Rothman responds to the question of Father Flynn's guilt
Doubt
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Dates and Plays are Subject to Change
Special Events
Join us for a pre-show dinner on Friday, May 23rd at 6:30 PM. The dinner will take place on the Rep's Spencer Theatre patio and will include dinner and a glass of wine/beer. Only $15!
Tickets to that night's production of The Drawer Boy must be purchased separately.
Spencer Theatre
Oct 19 - Nov 11, 2007
Should you take a stand on your convictions even when there’s more doubt than moral certainty? That is the question we are asked to consider in this gripping 2005 Pulitzer Prize winning drama that was also the winner of the coveted Tony Award for best play. Set in a Catholic school in the Bronx in 1964 we are introduced to Father Flynn a popular, charismatic priest who has taken the school’s only African American student under his wing. We also meet Sister Aloysius, a woman with a reputation for firmness and unbending resolve, who inhabits a world of black and white and sets out to show the world what truly dwells in Father Flynn’s soul. Alternately amusing, riveting and disturbing, Doubt is a spellbinding play about the nature of faith. New York magazine described Doubt as “a theatrical experience it would be sinful to miss.” Stephen Rothman returns after directing Under Midwestern Stars for the Rep last spring.
Run Time: Approx. 1 Hour 35 Minutes
Conversation Series
All Conversation Series events take place in the theatre immediately following the performance. Show times are indicated.
- Meet the Creative Team:
Sunday 10/21 7:00 pm
- Actor’s Forum:
Sunday 11/4 2:00pm;
Tuesday 11/6 7:00 pm
- Scholar’s Forum:
Saturday 11/3 2:00 pm
“Professional Ethics and
Morality of Our Times”
Scholars: Dr. Clancy Martin is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at UMKC. Dr. Clancy is especially interested in problems at the intersection of moral psychology, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language, such as the phenomena of self-deception and deception of others.
Dr. Wayne Vaught is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Medicine and Director of the Center for Applied and Professional Ethics. He came to UMKC in the Fall of 1998 and holds a joint appointment between the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Medicine.
Drs. Vaught and Martin are frequent guests on the KCUR’s Walt Bodine show.
