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Opening Date: Feb 28, 2006; Lead Performances: Chris Bauer and Stephen Lang; Writer: John Patrick Shanley; Director: John Patrick Shanley
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By Scott Brown
Scott Brown
Scott Brown
Scott Brown is a senior writer for EW and a frequent contributor to National Public Radio -- he has the tote bag to prove it

Doubt — John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer Prize winner about a priest, a nun, and an accusation — is a shrewdly structured sermon on a subject that defies structure and sermonizing. With Defiance, Shanley again applies slippery rationality to the Foggy Inexorable. This time, the result is more fog. On a North Carolina Marine base in 1971, a crusading colonel (Stephen Lang, stentorian and stilted) tries to ease racial tension with the help of a reluctant black captain (Chris Chalk). When a snaky Baptist chaplain (Chris Bauer) feels out both men's flaws, big ideas like Duty, Values, and God crowd the stage — and shove the characters roughly into the wings.


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Posted Mar 10, 2006

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