Proof (Drama)

Synopsis

Part of our Theatre Exchange Program, also performed at The Stables Theatre in Hastings-East Sussex, England. David Auburn’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play works on so many levels that it shines like a perfected equation. Catherine is the troubled 27-year-old daughter of Robert, a once-brilliant mathematician who has recently died. What Robert has left behind is an emotionally challenging legacy of genius, mental illness, and unfinished business in the Chicago home where Catherine had cared for him during his erratic final years. Catherine fears she may have inherited her father’s unstable condition, and her sister Claire arrives from New York with smothering concern and a selfish but well-meaning agenda, while Robert’s student and assistant Hal hopes to find lasting proof of Robert’s enduring genius in the piles of notebooks he left behind. Steeped in the authentic atmosphere of advanced academia, revelations of love, fear, regret, and potential recovery unfold with such graceful complexity that Proof plays like a thriller, with all the action taking place in the admirable hearts and minds of its characters.

Cast List

Catherine played by Sarah Bright

Hal played by Steven Klemp

Claire played by Regina A. Gadotti

Robert played by Tony Labriola