PROOF
“PROOF” written by David Auburn, was first produced in 2000 at the Manhattan Theatre Club in New York. It has won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and a Tony Award for Best Play. This contemporary mystery is Starlight Theatre Co-op’s fourth production from its Premiere 2008 Season at Centre Stage Theatre, 25 Quarry Street, Spring Hill.
The Story – Robert is a professor of Mathematics. His youngest daughter Catherine, has inherited his mathematical gift. She may also have inherited the mental instability that devastated his life. Hal is a young maths teacher and a former student of Roberts. He is researching his old professor’s notebooks in the hope of finding something that will promote his own career. After Robert’s death, Claire, Catherine’s older sister, arrives to attend his funeral and to sell the family home. She also intends to organize Catherine’s unstable life and to have her settle with her in her home town of New York under her watchful gaze. Hal’s research into Robert’s work has resulted in the discovery of a Mathematical Proof. After years of looking after her sick father Catherine is now faced with the possibility of submitting to a sanitised life in her sister’s care or claiming her right as her father’s protégée.
Director and Designer Shane Rodwell says, “The role of the creative person is to observe the world in which they live. In any of the sciences or arts, those pursuing an idea have always questioned their own existence and relationship to their world and those who inhabit it.”
Shane has over 35 years of theatrical experience in Direction, Performance and Design — winning the coveted 4MBS Perform Award for Costume Design for Harvest Rain Theatre’s Importance of Being Earnest. He has also won another MBS Perform award for consistency in stage design for Harvest Rain’s production of Bye Bye Birdie, Oliver and Godspell.
The show features Jack Bradford, well known Brisbane actor and Artistic Director of Starlight Theatre Co-op, Andrea Becker, AJ Marsh and Jodie Sibley, promising high quality performances in this absorbing play.
Don’t miss this dry, witty, contemporary mystery produced by Starlight Theatre Co-op.
The Professor
Claire, Catherine and Hal
Hal and Claire
Catherine and Hal
