DAPHNE KHUN -OWNER OF THE AUTO AND GENERAL THEATRE ON THE SQUARE IN SANDTON

Daphne Kuhn proudly presents a theatre experience not to be missed! Previewing from the 28th July, the provocative international play by John Patrick Shanley, DOUBT: A PARABLE, will be presented for first time in Gauteng. The production will feature some of South Africa’s most prestigious actors, FIONA RAMSAY, JANNA RAMOS-VIOLANTE, MWENYA KABWE, JAMES MAC EWAN (who returns from Los Angeles). It is directed by award-winning actor, director and theatre maker, JAMES CUNINGHAM. The plot is based on a few circumstantial details and a lot of intuition, set in 1964 in the St. Nicholas Church School in the Bronx. The ultra-stern Sister Aloysius Beauvier believes that a priest has done something terribly inappropriate to one of the students - a 12-year-old altar boy named Donald Muller, the school's only African American student. She recruits a young, naive nun (Sister James) to assist her in monitoring the suspicious yet charismatic Father Flynn. DOUBT is a provocative and gripping story of suspicion and suspense! It will leave audiences spellbound and questioning. The play was originally staged off-Broadway at the Manhattan Theatre Club in 2004 and transferred to the Walter Kerr Theatre on Broadway in 2005. It was directed by Roman Polanski for the 2006 run in Paris and premiered at the Tricycle Theatre in London in 2008. DOUBT has garnered numerous awards including a Tony Award for Best Play, a Pulitzer Prize for Drama and a Drama Desk Award for Best New Play in 2005. This popular theatre gem has been produced and performed all over the world. It was subsequently adapted and turned into an Academy Award-nominated movie, starring Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour.