Catherine has inherited her late father’s Robert’s mathematical brilliance, but she is haunted by the fear that she might also share his debilitating mental illness.
After years spent caring for him, she is now left alone to pick up the pieces of her life without him.
Caught between a new-found connection with Hal, one of her father’s former students, and the reappearance of her sister, Claire, Catherine finds both her world and her mind growing increasingly unstable, further complicated by the discovery of a groundbreaking mathematical proof among the numerous notebooks Robert left behind, the authorship of which remains to be seen.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, David Auburn’s Proof is a passionate, intelligent story about fathers and daughters, the nature of genius, and the power of love.
