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Article: A Benefit of 'Doubt'; Cherry Jones May Be Agnostic, but She Fills the Stage With Her Spirit
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- The Washington Post
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- April 3, 2005
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An angry nun is holding forth. "When you take a step against
wrongdoing," she announces stoutly, "you are taking a step away from
God -- but in His service."
Sometimes a single oblique sentence can define a character. The
nun is Sister Aloysius, and she is a paragon of dogma and rectitude.
Her face is taut, the mouth pursed in indignation, the eyes somewhat
obscured by heavy glasses. But nothing, it seems, is obscured to
Aloysius: She knows beyond knowing that the parish priest, Father
Flynn, has molested one of the boys in her high school, and she also
knows what she must do.
The scene is from a performance of John Patrick Shanley's new
drama, "Doubt" -- set in a Catholic school in the ...