The Schoolcraft College Theater Department’s fall production is John Patrick Shanley’s "Doubt, a Parable." The Dinner Theatre performances will be on November 5-6 and the Theatre only performances will be held November 12-13, 2010. The performance was met with rave reviews during its recent opening weekend, including several patrons who claim, "Doubt, a Parable is the best show the college has ever produced!"
 
Doubt, a Parable is the 2005 winner of the Pulitzer Prize, four Tony Awards, five Drama Desk Awards and three Critics’ Choice Awards. This gripping story of suspicion about a young priests’ behavior is less about scandal than about fascinatingly nuanced questions of moral certainty. When Sister Aloysius, a principal of a school in the Bronx, takes matters in her own hands when she suspects Father Flynn of an improper relationship with a student, is she targeting the priest because she dislikes him and disagrees with his interpretation of faith or are her suspicions a reflection of the truth? Is Sister Aloysius being overly protective, or not protective enough? Is doubt more powerful than certainty?
 
“A lean, potent drama…passionate, exquisite, important and engrossing,” is how New York Newsday describes Doubt, a Parable. “An eloquent and provocative investigation of truth and consequences,” adds Time Out. “A gripping mystery, that is tightly written.”

Dinner Theatre performance tickets are $24 per person and include dinner served in the VisTaTech Center at 6:30 p.m. followed by the performance of "Doubt, a Parable" at 8 p.m. in the Liberal Arts Theatre. Tickets for the Theatre only performance are $12 per person. Tickets can be purchased at www.scboxoffice.com.

Schoolcraft College is a public two-year college, offering classes at the Livonia campus, Haggerty Road between Six and Seven Mile Roads, at the Radcliff Center in Garden City and online at schoolcraft.edu.