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Apr 20, 2001 · DAVID AUBURN: It's the story of a young woman, Katherine, who has spent years caring for her father who is a brilliant mathematician, and her father began having various kinds of mental illness ...
Oct 24, 2000 · Photos Look Back at David Auburn's Pulitzer Prize-Winning Drama Proof The play, which earned star Mary-Louise Parker a Tony Award, premiered on Broadway October 24, 2000.
- Plot Overview of "Proof"
- What Works in "proof"?
- A Weak Central Conflict
- A Poorly Conceived Romantic Lead
- Lackluster Romantic Storyline
Catherine, the twenty-something daughter of an esteemed mathematician, has just laid her father to rest. He died after suffering from a prolonged mental illness. Robert, her father, had once been a gifted, ground-breaking professor. But as he lost his sanity, he lost his ability to work coherently with numbers. The audience is quickly introduced to...
"Proof" works very well during the father-daughter scenes. Unfortunately, there are only a few of these flashbacks. When Catherine does converse with her father, these scenes reveal her often conflicting desires. We learn that Catherine's academic goals were thwarted by her responsibilities to her ailing father. Her creative urges were offset by he...
One of the major conflicts of the play is Catherine's inability to convince Hal and her sister that she actually invented the proof in her father's notebook. For a while, the audience is unsure as well. After all, Catherine's sanity is in question. Also, she has yet to graduate from college. And, to add one more layer of suspicion, the proof is wr...
There is another weakness in this play, the character Hal. This character is sometimes nerdy, sometimes romantic, sometimes charming. But for the most part, he's an unpleasant man. He's the most skeptical about Catherine's academic abilities, yet through most of the play, he never chooses to talk to her, even briefly, about math so as to determine ...
Most egregious in this drama is the half-hearted love story that seems tacked on and extraneous to the dramatic center. And perhaps it is more accurate to call it a lust story. During the second half of the play, Catherine's sister discovers that Hal and Catherine have been sleeping together. Their sexual relationship seems very casual. It's main f...
- Wade Bradford
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Apr 17, 2023 · This is the substance of David Auburn’s memory play “Summer, 1976,” a febrile two-hander directed by Daniel Sullivan and starring Linney and Jessica Hecht (Alice) as women in their 50s ...
- Alexis Soloski
May 16, 2001 · David Auburn’s “Proof” is a remarkable artistic achievement, which views mathematics through a warm, empathetic and humanizing lens. ... Although women have earned full professorships at ...
University of Chicago ( BA) Juilliard School ( GrDip) Children. 2. David Auburn (born 30 November 1969) [1] is an American playwright, screenwriter and theatre director. He is best known for his 2000 play Proof, which won the 2001 Tony Award for Best Play and Pulitzer Prize for Drama. He also wrote the screenplays for the 2005 film version of ...
