Proof: A Play, David AuburnProof is a 2000 play by the American playwright David Auburn. Proof was developed at George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey, during the 1999 Next Stage Series of new plays. The play premiered Off-Broadway in May 2000 and transferred to Broadway in October 2000. The play won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play.عنوانها: «برهان»؛ «اثبات»؛ نویسنده: دیوید اوبورن؛ تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز هشتم ماه می سال 2012 میلادیعنوان: برهان (اث...

I loved this. The writing was so clear and succinct. No wasted words or emotions. It felt like a clock with each part there that needed to be working together in harmony. I have heard of this for years and I'm so glad I went ahead and read it. I love to read a play now and again. It is rewarding.Catherine is turning 25 and her father has died. She has been taking care of him the past 4 years. Her father is a famous mathematician who wrote several famous renown proofs and a student of his is tryi...

How did this win the pulitzer? Just another of those sloan foundation plays that deftly weave esoteric, intellectual ideas into the narrative in a particularly lame attempt to make the audience feel good about their intelligence. The characters are shallow and I don't really care whether or not she wrote the freaking proof! And why should I? The self-deprecating, emo little floozy couldn't extract sympathy from a potato (which is obviously the most sympathetic of all edible things in the vegetab...

(Read for school.)This is definitely one of my favorites! The line between fiction and reality was blurred, and I absolutely love how ambiguous things were - it lets us use our imagination.

Such a smart and engaging play, and very much worthy of taking home the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

December of Drama 2015, day twenty"Every morning there are mountains to climb,Taking all my time.When I get up this is what I see:Welcome to reality."--Realiti, by GrimesSolid. Am I spoiling myself by continuing to pick Pulitzer Prize winners to read? Probably. In any event, this isn't quite as heavy as Doubt, which I just read, but it is heady. Yet it doesn't get bogged down in the mathematics, as you might expect from the synopsis. It's intelligent, but, intelligently, more about the character...

I loved this play. With two acts, it has a compact plot and is thought provoking. Robert was a renowned mathematics professor at the University of Chicago and he is now deceased. His adult daughters are Catherine, a possible prodigy and Claire who is the responsible daughter with a finance degree. And there is also a mathematics student named Hal who is interested in Robert’s notebooks. Hal attends the University of Chicago where Robert taught. Catherine attended Northwestern University but had

Filme“Let X equal the quantity of all quantities of X. Let X equal the cold. It is cold in December. The months of cold equal November through February. There are four months of cold, and four of heat, leaving four months of indeterminate temperature. In February it snows. In March the Lake is a lake of ice. In September the students come back and the bookstores are full. Let X equal the month of full bookstores. The number of books approaches infinity as the number of months of cold approaches

The four characters in the play are well developed and the plot is interesting. The main character, Catherine, is a lively young woman who—having taken care of her mathematically gifted and mentally challenged father, Robert, recently deceased and appearing as a ghost or hallucination and during flashbacks—might have inherited both her father’s genius and his instability. For a while, Auburn kept me guessing whether Catherine had or hadn’t. Robert’s former graduate student Hal who becomes romant...

This play follows Catherine, who as been caring for her ill genius mathematician father. But he is dead now, and her sister Claire and a former student, Hal, of her father has come, with the hopes of discovering something genius between the scrabbles. But Catherine has inherited some of her father brilliance, as well as his insanity. Soon Hal and Catherine begin something, but how will it end? If you do not wish to read this awesomeness, there is a film released in 2005 that was great as well.Th...

I've never seen the film, and I don't think I will simply because I cannot imagine it will do justice to this play, and I have a deep-seeded dislike of Gwyneth Paltrow. Nonetheless, I've always thought the premise sounded interesting, so I decided to pick up the original. I'm so glad I did. I don't know why I haven't read more plays. This is only the third play I've read outside of high school that isn't Shakespeare, and I've loved all three of them. It makes me wonder why I was so dead-set agai...

the english teachers for the senior class are fantastic. proof was amazing. i loved that it was such a tightly written play, four characters and half of them female (as in life, take a note, entertainment industry), the exploration of trust and love and the relationship between mental illness and creativity). i loved that effortless plot twist, so early on. i loved the descriptions of the world of academia and the insecurity of intellectuals and yayyy

Wow. This is a truly fantastic play. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award, this is one of those works of art that makes me appreciate why we give awards for something as subjective as the creative arts. The play explores the themes of love, madness, and genius through Catherine, the younger daughter of recently deceased mathematician, who was brilliant but mentally ill. The play has a timeless quality that strengthens Mr. Auburn’s ability to craft a compelling story that is specific but...

Reread this because a local theatre is producing it in a few months. Haven't read it since college (where I did a report on it and a bunch of other math plays/movies) but always knew it was one of my favorites.After a quick read today, I realize I should have been more on the lookout for this production a decade ago. At 34, I maybe could play Hal, but it would have been a lot easier ten years ago.The play is written so damn well (I guess those Pulitzer people know what they're doing) and it's gr...

I haven't read a play in a long time.This one was fun and just kept me turning the pages. The heroine , Catherine, was so perfect and captivating to me. She dealt with real pain and just had me rooting for her the entire story. I loved Hal. I love Claire.And the scenes with Catherine and her father made me wish I was right in the audience watching this be performed.This is a play that could make you cry. Bravo!

I'm not generally a fan of scripts, so I was really surprised when I realized I was actually enjoying this. It somehow managed to overcome the emptiness that theater and its lack of narration tends to suffer from on the page. Loved the characters. Loved the dialogue. Loved the math background. I'm excited to watch the movie and, hopefully, the actual play acted out sometime. :)

A fascinating play that delves into the world of math and insanity. I really liked the quick dialogue, the right use of flashbacks and the hopeful ending.

In Proof: A Play, the author, David Auburn, tells the story of a young woman that explores her fathers work of mathematics to an even deeper understanding then she already knew of. Her fathers death causes a great toll on her state being but along with her fathers former student they uncover a secret in the notebooks he wrote. The main investigation that takes place in the story is how Catherine and Hal try to overcome their own obstacles as they try to discover the deep-rooted secrets Catherine...

It is difficult to think of schoolwork when one is on vacation. Especially math… At least for me since it is not my favorite subject. Yet, I must admit that I found the reading I chose quite interesting and intriguing. Not knowing what to expect from the assigned integrated science and math booklist I blindly picked Proof, A Play, written by David Auburn. The book is about an adolescent named Catherine who struggles with many issues created by the death of her father, Robert. Robert, a renowned

One of the best plays I have read in a long time. It would certainly present some technical challenges in its production elements, especially in the way that it moves back in forth through time and also in between seasons (you would have to convincingly go from summer-now to winter-three-years-ago in a matter of seconds). Also, depending on the audience, the fact that this is a story with mathematics as its central theme may present an issue for some companies.It is a strongly written script wit...

"Proof" is ideal for the witching hours of the night, when you cannot sleep, idly flip television channels to idly flip television channels, and then toss the remote / click the laptop shut and wonder if you might be crazy. Incidentally, that's where Auburn's play begins, and we are ushered into what I'd call Second City Gothic (sister to the Southern Gothic subgenre): a big, drafty Chicago house looms, complete with a clanking radiator, absent mother, ghost, tortured heroine wearing a key aroun...

I suppose that I shouldn't be surprised, but I enjoyed this play more than I thought I would. I expected it to be a bit dry, but it was actually quite lively and the relationships were well-defined (though I did feel that there was a certain leap to affection that was a bit rushed).A minimal cast and a well-crafted tale brought this story to life. I would like to have seen it done. I will admit to wondering, even upon finishing, whether or not the young woman actually wrote the proof or not. Why...

Proof was perhaps a complex play, whose message was lost on me. Perhaps there was no message, perhaps it was a feminist novel, perhaps it was about injustice of some sort. Most literature is about some sort of injustice. If it's about anything it's probably about fear and speculation, fear of aging, fear that you will never be successful in creating something that is beautiful and elegant and permanent all at once. Fear that when you die you won't even leave behind proof that you ever existed.

This is a play I'm going to have to investigate more to fully understand, but I really enjoyed it and it's very well written. Everything ties together nicely, but I was still left wondering if things would work out. I'm actually doing a scene from this play for one of my acting classes, so I'm really excited to get to play around with it and see what I can discover.

This was a really cool play. I love the story and characters, and it all seems to flow together really well after the flashbacks.

This play struck me as a modern tragedy, to be honest. All tragedies have a tragic hero, which in this play would be Catherine, in my opinion. Catherine would be the tragic hero because she has spent many years taking care of her unstable father. Her father wouldn’t need taking care of if he wasn’t unstable due to mathematics. The author tells Catherine’s story by giving very little detail to what they are doing/talking about. Sometimes you get a full explanation as to what Catherine is talking

One of my flaws is not spending time on reading plays, a flaw I realized while reading Proof by David Auburn. This is a play about a mathematician prodigy who deals with "A Beautiful Mind" of her father by taking care of him for years as he lost his grip on sanity and consequently his academic life. I like how Auburn plays with time and blurs the boundaries between the past and the present. I also like the way he creates a character who tries to distance herself and her future from her father to...

This is a play that is full of emotion that really allows for a deep connection to the characters. I enjoyed reading this book but I though that the plot of the story was a little bit hollow. The issue that the characters had to deal with seemed like it could have been solved in a shorter more logical manner. I guess if they were to solve their problem like that you couldn't call it drama! It could also be that this is meant to be performed rather than read. Those are the reasons that I gave thi...

A compelling play about mental health, prejudice against women and youth, as well as family dynamics. There is some light commentary (I might be reading too much into it) about academia, especially in STEM field (mathematics, specifically), on expectations and perceptions. I think the characters are all very sympathetic, even Claire (the "well"-intentioned but basically ineffectively older sister) who tried to do the right thing for Catherine (and perhaps to Robert too) but ultimately cannot (or...

In this play, Proof, the author is telling a story of a woman who took care of her father, who was unstable, but he was also a genius in mathematics. Catherine, the main character, was afraid of turning out like her father who was, she thought, insane; but he was brilliant. Over time, through the play, there are flashbacks of the times when she took care of her father, before he passed away. Catherine would work on some math in the middle of the night when her father was asleep, because she woul...