Proof

“Crazy people don't sit around asking if they're crazy.”

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 fathers 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?

Proof contains themes of death, depression, mental illness, and adult language. The play won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play.

Proof
by David Auburn
directed by Carl Drake
a joint production from Café Theatre and Ellerslie Theatrical Society

Matinees Sunday 15 and Saturday 21 March at 2pm.
No evening performance Sunday 15 March.
No performance Monday 16 March.

Licensed bar.

A community theatre production of Proof by special arrangement with Samuel French Ltd and New Zealand Play Bureau Ltd.