Did someone say "moral ambiguity"?
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John Patrick Shanley
Redtwist Theatre
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| Friday | 8 p.m. |
| Saturday | 8 p.m. |
| Sunday | 3 p.m. |
| Thursday | 8 p.m. |
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John Patrick Shanley's whipcrack-fast debate of a play, about a nun who suspects a parish priest of child abuse, roared through Chicago last year in the Cherry Jones Broadway in Chicago production. Redtwist Theatre's exponentially smaller incarnation may not have the same star-wattage, but director Greg Kolack takes full advantage of what he does have: a claustrophobic venue. When you watch the crusading Sister Aloysisus (Jan Ellen Graves) and the possibly guilty Father Flynn (C. Sean Piereman) tear into each other from the front row of this 35-seater, you feel just like Sister James, the young nun caught in the middle of the conflict: queasy, uncertain and tense. It's just what the show needs.
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