To keep thinking on the topic, I do think that what you point to is why the play will have staying power in the American theater. Long after the molestation scandal has (hopefully) faded into distant memory, the larger questions the play asks about God, faith, and the structure of organized religion should carry it forward... and in fifty years (or less), we'll likely get a review which says essentially what you've written: free of the association, we can at last see what this play is *really* about.
At some point in the recent past, we had a discussion on this board about Great Plays, and whether anything recent would make it onto that list. Someone mentioned "Doubt", and I was skeptical - I called it Good, but not Great - but you make a good case for why that poster (and perhaps even it was you, I can't remember that far back) felt that this play is a candidate for the canon. |
