Proof

On the eve of her twenty-fifth birthday, Catherine, a young woman who has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, Robert, must deal not only with his death but with the arrival of her estranged sister, Claire, and with the attentions of Hal, a former student of her father’s who hopes to find valuable work in the 103 notebooks that Robert left behind.As Catherine confronts Hal’s affections and Claire’s plans for her life, she struggles to solve the most perplexing problem of all: How much of her father’s madness – or genius – will she inherit?“Auburn has taken on some biggies here: what the link may be between genius and mental instability, why it is that lives get stuck, and how elusive the truth can be…. (Proof’s) level of accomplishment and realness of its characters show that Auburn has both depth and a voice.” – The New Yorker “Proof is…. a play about scientists whose science matters less than their humanity… All four (characters) – whether loving, hating, encouraging or impeding one another – are intensely alive, complex, funny, human.” – John Simon, New York