[NEohioPAL] Lakeland Theatre announces Cast: Proof

Martin Friedman martinfriedman98 at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 31 04:23:23 PDT 2012


Lakeland Civic Theatre
announces 
the Cast for the
Pulitzer Prize-winning drama
Proof
by 
David Auburn
 
Liz Conway Catherine
Laurel Hoffman Claire
Aaron Elersich Hal                                                                 Mitchell Fields* Robert (courtesy of Actor’s Equity Association)
 
Directed byMartin Friedman
Sets and Lights Designed byKeith Nagy
Costumes Designed byHarold Crawford 
Sound Design byEric Simna
 
… an exhilarating and assured new play by David Auburn that turns the esoteric world of higher mathematics literally into a back porch drama, one that is as accessible and compelling as a detective story.” NY Times
 
THE STORY:
The play, which opened in May, 2000, is fundamentally a mystery about the authorship of a particularly important proof, a mystery that is solved in the end; it is also, however, about the unravelable enigma of genius, and the toll it can take on those who are beset with it, aspire to it or merely live in its vicinity. 
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 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?
 
 
Proof opens on Friday, September 21 and runs through October 7, 2012--Friday through Sunday.
 
 
For ticket information please call  440-525-7526  or email me, Martin Friedman, at martinfriedman98 at yahoo.com.
 
" When we think of the great American playwrights, we think of Arthur Miller and Eugene O'Neill and Lillian Hellman, in earlier generations; Wendy Wasserstein and Tony Kushner, Jon Robin Baitz and Donald Margulies today: They are always writing about big ideas and wrapping them in family squabbles that get us where we live. Welcome David Auburn to 
the club. PROOF is the one you won't want to miss this fall." —NY Magazine. 
"…combines elements of mystery and surprise with old-fashioned storytelling to provide a compelling evening of theatre…[PROOF is a] smart and compassionate play of ideas." NY Daily News. 
"PROOF surprises us with its aliveness…Mr. Auburn takes pleasure in knowledge…At the same time, he is unshowily fresh and humane, and he has written a lovely play." —NY Observer.
"[A] wonderfully funny…ambitiously constructed work…" —Variety.
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