UF Theatre Students to Present “Proof”
Monday, October 02, 2006
The University of Findlay’s theatre students will present “Proof” Oct. 4 – 8 in the John and Hester Powell Grimm Theatre.
Performances are at 8 p.m. Wednesday through
Saturday and at 6 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $5 for general admission, $3
for seniors and students and free to UF faculty, staff and students.
Tickets are available by calling the box office at 419-434-5335. Please
note that there is a small amount of adult language.
Cast members include Christen Mathern, senior
theatre performance major, as Catherine; Matt Waugh, junior theatre
performance major, as Robert; Chris Leitner, junior theatre performance
major, as Hal; and Evan Potter, sophomore theatre performance major, as
Claire.
Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award, “Proof” was
written by David Auburn and has entertained many audiences. “When we
think of the great American playwrights, we think of Arthur Miller and
Eugene O’Neill and Lillian Hellman, in earlier generations. Welcome
David Auburn to the club,” said NY Magazine.
The story begins with Catherine, a troubled young
woman, who has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable
father, a famous mathematician. Now, following his death, she must deal
with her own volatile emotions; the arrival of her estranged sister,
Claire; and the attentions of Hal, a former student of her father’s who
hopes to find valuable work in the 103 notebooks that her father left
behind. A burgeoning romance and the discovery of a mysterious notebook
draw Catherine into the most difficult problem of all: how much of her
father’s madness — or genius — will she inherit?
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