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Proof is the winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
One of the most acclaimed plays of the 1999-2000 season, Proof is a work that explores the unknowability of love as much as it does the mysteries of science.
It focuses on Catherine, a young woman who has spent years caring for her father, Robert, a brilliant mathematician in his youth who was later unable to function without her help. His death has brought into her midst both her sister, Claire, who wants to take Catherine back to New York with her, and Hal, a former student of Catherine's father who hopes to find some hint of Robert's genius among his incoherent scribblings. The passion that Hal feels for math both moves and angers Catherine, who, in her exhaustion, is torn between missing her father and resenting the great sacrifices she made for him. For Catherine has inherited at least a part of her father's brilliance — and perhaps some of his instability as well. As she and Hal become attracted to each other, they push at the edges of each other's knowledge, considering not only the unpredictability of genius but also the human instinct toward love and trust.
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Paulette Dumont
reviewed Proof: A Play on June 26, 2019 Proof: A Play
I loved this. The writing was so clear and succinct. No wasted words or emotions. It felt like a clock with each part there that needed to be working together in harmony. I have heard of this for years and I'm so glad I went ahead and read it. I love to read a play now and again. It is rewarding.
Catherine is turning 25 and her father has died. She has been taking care of him the past 4 years. Her father is a famous mathematician who wrote several famous renown proofs and a student of his is trying to make sure this man who went crazy didn't leave one last tidbit behind that the world should know about. There are some great surprises in this story I won't spoil. It is worth reading. I would be interested to see how it is played on stage. Excellent.
People are worried that Catherine might be cracking up like her dad did. The student, Hal falls for Catherine. Catherine's sister, Claire, also comes for the funeral and she is trying to get Catherine to move to NYC with her so she can care for Catherine. Claire is worried about her.
Catherine has written, while she has been caretaking her father, a proof of her own. A proof that will set the world on fire. Will anyone believe that she wrote it?
I love this play. It's brilliant and simple and engrossing. Thank you David Auburn for this. I like how the play hops and skips in time, just enough to fill us in on the past important details. I love the character of Catherine and her need for someone to just believe her. This is all about a mathematical proof, but we really get little of it in the audience, so that won't lose anyone.
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