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Theaterworks Amsterdam
Presented
A Staged Reading of

DOUBT
by John Patrick Shanley

At the ABC Treehouse

Variety called DOUBT “A gripping story of suspicion cast on a priest’s behavior that is less about scandal than about fascinatingly nuanced questions of moral certainty.” The New York Times praised “Doubt” as “…an inspired study in moral uncertainty with the compellingly certain structure of an old-fashioned detective drama”.  

“There is an uneasy time when belief has begun to slip, but hypocrisy has yet to take hold, when the consciousness is disturbed but not yet altered.  It is the most dangerous, important, and ongoing experience of life.” - John Patrick Shanley

Directed by Joost van Oosterhout, featuring Annemiek Lelijveld, Alfred van der Poll, Jasmine Soori-Arachi and Kim Chandler.  Presented with permission of the playwright’s management.   

 

Joost van Oosterhout (Director) has worked in several areas of performance. His educational background consists of acrobatics, Vaudeville techniques, martial arts and percussion. He has worked for almost fifteen years with a theater company on a professional basis. In this capacity he has developed and performed theater plays, animation and coaching projects. Apart from being a performer, he is also skilled as a director and as a teacher of theater techniques. Over the last three years he has performed in several readings with Theatergroup Trezoor/Theaterworks Amsterdam, and last November he played the part of Giles Corey in The Crucible.

 

 

Annemiek Lelijveld (Sister Aloysius) is Assistant Artistic Director for Theaterworks. She studied musicology at the University of Amsterdam from 1977 until 1984 en began playing bass guitar in the pop group Blue Murder in 1983. After the band stopped in 1987, she kept making music in bands like Hurricane Annie, The Plastic Dolls, Peter Smid Band, Bos & Lommer, Sins and Sighs, Horns on Heels and others, but she also took up acting again. Since then, she has performed in big and small stage productions for adults and children, with Eva Bauknecht, Toneelgroep Europa, ’t Roz, Nanook Nono and many ad hoc ensembles, and last November she played Rebecca Nurse in Theaterworks' production of The Crucible, She was a guest actor in soaps and other television productions and played in Filmschool Eindexamen films and in the short  ‘In Een Klap’ by Phil van Tongeren.

 

 

Alfred van der Poll (Father Flynn) was born in Amsterdam. He attended the theater school in Amsterdam in the early eighties, but dropped out and started to work all kinds of jobs. He rediscovered his love for acting and since then he’s been moving more and more towards professional stage acting. Currently he is attending a 3-year training course to become an Alexander technique teacher in Amsterdam, while appearing as a guest actor in soaps such as ‘Goede Tijden, Slechte Tijden’, ‘Onderweg Naar Morgen’, ‘Alex FM’ and ‘Circus Waltz’. In November 2005 he played Reverend Parris in Theaterworks' production of The Crucible.

 

 

Jasmine Soori-Arachi (Sister James) is of Scottish, English and Sri Lankan descent and has been appearing in dance and theater productions since her high school days in Nebraska. After pursuing a linguistic education in The Netherlands (she is currently completing her Masters Thesis in Linguistics), she received extensive training in various aspects of theater. She followed the year long full-time ITS DNA training, attended the Amsterdamse Toneelschool en Kleinkunst-Academie for a year and followed a four week intensive Shakespeare training at the RADA Summer School. Jasmine wrote, choreographed and starred in the multi-disciplinary piece ‘Personae’; danced in, among others, ‘Samsara’ by Claudia d’Evelina and Satish Makhan and 'Magnetic-Absence' by Soen-Ja Seo, and danced and acted in ‘Dari Mana’ by Ubit Iskander. She played in the short films ‘Nocturnal’ by Jeroen Granzier and ‘The Child’ by Mischa Oehlen, and played the Hindu Goddess Lakshmi in ‘Divali’ for the Dutch Hindu network station OHM. In November 2005 she played Abigail Williams in Theaterworks' production of The Crucible.

 
Kim Chandler (Mrs. Muller) has been performing in some way for nearly thirty years. She studied theatre in Canada at Queens University, had her own theatre company in London, England (Lo Ki Wee Productions) for which she wrote, performed, directed and produced. Kim continues to do various projects in Amsterdam, and internationally, including co-hosting the English Breakfast Radio Show, voice over work, performance poetry and the occasional theatre piece along with her writing and editing work. She is currently in the process of writing her next film script.