Path to Holly wood.

Oh thats not me,just a scene from the play,Matanda having a confrontation with the nun.

So! I’ve got another acting stint and will be on stage this weekend starting tonight. Holly wood here I come, or must I look just over the edge and eye Ugy wood, whatever they called that thing that movie wannabes like Murder in the city were to be derieved.

Oh before Holly wood there is even that Nolly wood business. I sure hope that I won’t have to go through the Bolly wood as well, for I cannot imagine having to sing every single emotion I feel. Do they even kiss these days?
Oh! talking about kissing, I was shocked the other day when I saw the Nolly wood guys doing a real cool spit swap.(Quite a step ahead).

Anyhow so where was I! Oh yes, its going to have to be Broadway, am afraid. This time it’s a drama called Doubt a parable by John Patrick Shanley.One of those plays you have to put your whole into in order to grasp the gist.

If you are like the crowd that I met at Cineplex cinema the night I went to watch Casino Royale, (remember the flirty exchange in the train), you can forget about catching the humor in the diction of this play.

Never the less it is one that spurs your mental faculties in to wondering about the times you think the worst of others or simply doubt their actions.

This is the play review

A play this thoughtful, this well-crafted, this passionate is hard to ignore and even harder to resist. The real drama comes from how you, like the characters, deal with a situation that can't be fully understood because it cannot be interpreted in only one way.
When you're faced with a situation like this, for which there is no single clear answer, with whom do you identify?

The priest loves teaching and takes his faith seriously, but makes perhaps too many mistakes? The school's principal who uses all of her education, experience, and personal beliefs to come to a conclusion, and then sticks to her guns in order to protect the children at any cost? School teacher who can too easily see both sides of the question? Or, the pupil's mother( that’s me) who knows elements of the truth, but might let the consequences slide in pursuit of a possible greater good?

The most tantalizing question: Did he or didn't he? But what's the truth? We don't know. We can't know. Dramatically, that ambiguity is key. And that's the beauty of Doubt.
Theatre Review by Matthew Murray Talkin' Broadway- March 31, 2005
No doubt about it. This is the one play that anyone who cares about drama should see. The power of Shanley's writing had me enthralled. If anything, I was taken by the exquisite blend of humor and drama than before, and the play of emotions.

While this is a serious drama about complicated human and social issues, Doubt is simply ninety minutes of good theater, with enough humor to entertain and plenty of food for post-theater discussions
Elyse Sommer, CurtainUp

John Patrick Shanley's Doubt flowers from a conventional seed into an intricate vine whose tendrils go beyond did-he or didn't-he to nudge ramifications of faith, justification, and even the future. But there's nothing flowery about the exquisite clarity of this play.
Laura Hitchcock, A CurtainUp Los Angeles Review