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Proof - Acting Edition - David Auburn
Proof - Acting Edition
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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,... show more
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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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780822217824 (0822217821)
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Pages no: 72
Edition language: English
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5.0 Proof: A Play
It’s Catherine’s birth­day. She is turn­ing twenty-five, but already spent most of her adult life car­ing for her manic-depressive father Robert, hav­ing to discard her own study and stu­dent life. Now that Robert is dead she has dif­fi­culty to get her own life back on track. She doesn’t leave the ...
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