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Auditions have taken place and tickets will soon be available for the next theatre production, Doubt, at the Ashmore Auditorium on the Pensacola Campus. Directed by the Lyceum Director, Stan Dean, shows will begin Thursday and Friday, February 26-27, 2010 at 7:30 pm and Sunday, February 28, 2010 at 2:30 pm.
If you don’t catch it the first weekend, the performance will continue the following weekend, March 5-7. Tickets are free to PJC students but be sure to get your tickets at the ticket office in the Ashmore Auditorium ahead of time.
Doubt was written by John Patrick Shanley and is set in a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, where Sister Aloysius Beauvier wrestles with conscience and uncertainty as she is faced with concerns about the principal of the school, Father Brendan Flynn. Sister Aloysius finds herself compelled to challenge Father Flynn after a young nun comes to suspect that the priest’s interest in Donald, the school’s first black pupil, is not altogether wholesome.
Though the play may seem to have a controversial theme “the controversy is between people rather than religious beliefs.” said Dean. “The audience is left to decide for themselves the guilt or innocence of the priest.”
Cast members:
Father Flynn: Rodney Whatley
Sister Aloysius Beauvier: Donna Quinn
Sister James: Kat Cooper
Mrs. Muller: LaVetta J. Fowler
Stan Dean, Director of Lyceum, received his bachelor of arts degree in theatre from the University of West Florida and his master of fine arts degree in drama from the University of Oklahoma.
