Proof

Written By David Auburn
Directed By J.J. Marrs

September 24-October 3, 2009
Friday-Saturday Nights at 8pm

Performed at Birmingham AIDS Outreach

On the eve of her twenty-fifth birthday, Catherine, a troubled young woman, 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. Over the long weekend that follows, 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?

Featuring: Lauren Cantrell, Stephen Wade, Hannah Wilkerson-Francis, Ron Dauphinee

“Five Stars!”
— The Birmingham News

David Auburn's plays include PROOF (Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award, New York Drama Critics Circle Award), AN UPSET and AMATEURS (EST Marathons), and SKYSCRAPER. Films include “The Girl in the Park” (writer/director) and “The Lake House.” Recent directing credits include A DELICATE BALANCE for BTF. His short plays have been collected in the volume FIFTH PLANET AND OTHER PLAYS (DPS). His work has been published in Harper's, New England Review, and Guilt and Pleasure; and he was a contributing editor to the Oxford American Writers Thesaurus. A former Guggenheim Fellow, he lives in New York City.