Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on November 2010

Courtesy of Blackstripe Theater

Since debuting in 2007 with Harold Pinter’s The Dumb Waiter, Blackstripe Theater has been dedicated to presenting works in English by contemporary playwrights. For its latest production, the expat drama group tackles John Patrick Shanley’s 2005 Pulitzer Prize winner. Familiar to cinema audiences from the 2008 movie adaptation starring Meryl Streep, Doubt is set in a fictional church school in the Bronx. When the rigidly conservative principal begins to suspect a priest of sexual misconduct with the school’s first black student, a dramatic clash of morals ensues.

Doubt
English-language troupe Black Stripe Theater take on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by John Patrick Shanley. Nov 16-18, 7:30pm, ¥2,500 (adv)/¥3,000 (door). Theatre Iwato, Kagurazaka; Nov 26, 7:30pm; Nov 27-28, 2pm & 7:30pm, ¥2,500 (adv)/¥3,000 (door). Our Space, Hatagaya. http://blackstripetheater.com