(*) PROOF by David Auburn, Classic Theatre, San Antonio August 9 - 25, 2013

(Classic Theatre, San Antonio, performing at Jump-Start Theatre, Blue Star Arts Complex #108, 1400 S. Alamo, San Antonio 78204 ) 

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Proof

by David Auburn

David Auburn's award-winning play follows Catherine, a young woman who turned the focus of her life to caring for her brilliant, but mentally deteriorating, father until his death. When one of her father's ex-students finds a groundbreaking mathematical proof he believes it to be the work of the deceased professor, when in fact it was discovered by Catherine. No one believes that the calculations are hers and now she must prove her honesty. The play deals with family conflict, the mysterious nature of genius and insanity, and the struggle to prove one's own worth. Proof originally opened off-Broadway at the Manhattan Theatre Club in 2000 and won the Lucille Lortel Award for best off-Broadway drama. It moved to Broadway in 2001 and won the Pulitzer Prize, the Tony Award, the New York Critics' Circle Award and the Drama Desk Award for Drama.

Location: The Sterling Houston Theater at Jump-Start, 108 Blue Star, in the Blue Star Arts Complex at the corner of S. Alamo and Probandt, San Antonio, Texas, 78204

Times: August 9 - 25, 2013 Performances are Friday & Saturday at 8:00 PM and Sunday at 3:00 PM

Tickets: $25 for General Admission; $20 for Seniors (+65), SATCO, ATAC, MIL w/ID; $10 for Full time students with ID. For group rates please call 210-589-8450. For tickets call 1-800-838-3006 (There is no charge for using our ticket service!!) Or go to www.classictheatre.org and click on "Buy Tickets".

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Auditions in San Antonio for Proof by David Auburn, Classic Theatre, May 13, 2013

Auditions on May 13 for Proof by David Auburn, directed by Allan S. Ross. The 2001 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and one of the most acclaimed plays in recent years, Proof explores the depth and mystery of love as well as the mystery of science. Runs August 9-25, 2013.


We are asking for 3 Minute Contemporary monologues (memorized please) from any actors/actresses who have not auditioned for Classic Theatre of San Antonio in the past two years. Call Florence at 210-589-8450 to schedule an audition time. Anyone who has auditioned for us previously (in the past two years) needs to contact Florence (210) 589-8450 and let us know you are interested in being considered for a role. We will contact you if we want to see you at callbacks on May 14. May 13 is only for new actors/actresses and for people we haven't seen lately. Please bring a headshot and resume.




All roles are available:

Catherine: A young woman who inherited at least some of her father's mathematical genius, and, she fears, his "instability" as well; she gave up her life and schooling to take care of her father until his recent death.
Claire: Catherine's older sister, a no nonsense, take charge kind of gal. She left Robert and Catherine behind, distancing herself from the run down family home of her youth. She escaped the edge of the UChicago campus to make a new life for herself in New York City.
Robert: A recently deceased mathematician who did brilliant, breakthrough work in his youth, but whose later years were plagued by delusional mental illness; he is seen in Catherine's imagination and in flashbacks.
Harold (Hal) Dobbs: One of Robert's last Ph.D. students during the one year his idol and mentor's illness went into remission, at least enabling Robert to teach, if not continue his own creative mathematical work.

Proof, Trinity Street Players, February 16 - March 10 (extended run)

David Auburn's Proof plays with the audience, cannily withholding elements essential to the story taking place before our eyes in a back garden, adjacent to the University of Chicago. The first of those elements arrives after a lengthy gentle conversation between a relaxed, reassuring professor of mathematics and his earnest, worried daughter. Similar to an instruction to divide by the square root of -1, it obliges new rules upon us, sending us off into the world of the imaginary.

Auburn does it again at the close of Act I, when Bridget applies an operator that's similar to [*-1], giving our results a smart shake that turns our received knowledge inside out. And since in good story telling tradition surprises come in 3's, he situates the opening of the second act not in n but rather in [n - x] where x = 4 and the units are years.

Leaving math play aside for a moment, one intriguing aspect of Auburn's story about the frontiers of mathematics and the far reaches of human rationality is how little of mathematics appears in it. Of course, your ordinary audience would probably sit glassy eyed at any serious intent to explain a major postulate or proof. We who are largely innumerate take the existence of higher mathematics largely on faith, and we're perfectly satisfied when Auburn withholds the mumbo jumbo of technical terms for the the final seconds of the piece when the stage lights are going down. Catherine, granted credence by her aspiring suitor the graduate student in math, is about to take his adoring attention into those mythical realms where we can't follow.

Proof only hints at mathematical proofs, exercises in a closed and shining world where everything fits incontrovertibly. More importantly, it offers us the search for proof in a more judicial sense -- the messy accumulation of facts, testimony and human interactions intended to establish in our fallible mind , beyond a reasonable doubt, a version of reality.

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Video for Upcoming: Proof, Trinity Street Players, February 17 - March 4

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Proof

by David Auburn

February 17 - March 4, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 2 p.m.

4th floor black box theatre, First Baptist Church, 901 Trinity Street (click for map)

Admission free (donations gladly accepted) -- Please reserve at (512) 402-3086 or email reservations@trinityplayers.com

For mature audiences

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Upcoming: Proof by David Auburn, Trinity Street Players,February 17 - March 4

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February 17 - March 4, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 2 p.m.

4th floor black box theatre, First Baptist Church, 901 Trinity Street (click for map)

Admission free (donations gladly accepted) -- Please reserve at (512) 402-3086 or email reservations@trinitystreetplayers.com

For mature audiences

David Auburn’s play Proof, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best Play, is a complex, layered drama about a young woman struggling to find room for healing and trust in a world that is imploding around her. Catherine’s struggles with herself, her brilliant yet unstable father Robert, her well-meaning but controlling sister Claire, and her father’s passionate and devoted protégé Hal provide a dynamic context for exploration of the often fine line between creativity and madness, familial love and emotional suffocation, and self-perception and reality. Catherine exhibits signs of the same remarkable genius as her father, but she fears she will also inherit the mental illness that robbed him of his career and ultimately his ability to function in the world.

Her sister Claire urges Catherine to abandon her amazing gift and embrace the mental stagnation of a safe and structured life. However, it is Hal who begins to perceive the truth of Catherine’s life and introduces her to the possibility of risking something big for something great. At the center of the conflict is an earth-shattering mathematical proof whose authorship is in dispute and around which our characters engage in a ferocious battle of mind, heart, and soul.

Trinity Street Players is proud to present this truly moving theatrical experience. The play is directed by TSP veteran David McCullars, whose last directorial outing was the highly acclaimed Shadowlands. He is assisted by Shadowlands and Three Viewings star, Linda Miller Raff. The cast includes three fantastic additions to the TSP community. Bridget Farias, a well-known and beloved presence in the Austin-area theatre scene who also serves as artistic director of the EmilyAnn Theatre & Gardens in Wimberley, TX, plays the troubled but brilliant Catherine. Gary Clarke, whose impressive TV and film résumé includes roles in The Virginian, Michael Shayne, Tombstone, and General Hospital, plays Robert, Catherine's crumbling genius father. Dr. Circe Sturm, also a talented and familiar face in the Austin theatre community, plays Catherine's forceful but caring sister Claire. Proof director David McCullars plays Hal, Robert’s devoted graduate student and Catherine’s path to awakening.

Proof opens February 18th and runs for three weekends in the Black Box Theater at 901 Trinity Street, Austin, Texas. To make reservations for Friday and Saturday night or Sunday matinee performances, please call 512-402-3086 or email reservations@trinitystreetplayers.com. It is part of the Trinity Street Players’ mission to make all of our shows free and accessible to all, but donations are always welcome.

Auditions for Proof, Trinity Street Players, November 19 and 20

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Trinity Street Players audition notice for Proof by David Audburn

Audition dates: Saturday, November 19 at 1 p.m.; Sunday, November 20 at 1 p.m. (optional callbacks)

901 Trinity Street, 4th Floor Blackbox Theatre (click for map)

This Pulitzer-Prize-winning play is a powerful drama about the fine line between madness and brilliance. It's a story of creativity, control, passion, and second chances. Audburn is simply flawless in the execution of the script: "The work was beautiful. It's streamlined: no wasted moves, like a ninety-five mile-an-hour fastball. It's just elegant" says Hal.

CHARACTERS:

Catherine (age 25) - a complicated young woman, unpretentiously brilliant, caught in the shadow of her great father to whom she is deeply devoted yet painfully resentful; guarded and layered but quirky and extremely endearing. Her sense of humor and novel behavior traits walk the line between funny and heartbreaking. Utterly afraid she suffers from the same incapacitating mental illness that took her father's brilliance away from him.

Robert (age 50-65) - an obviously brilliant mathematician with a particular fondness for his mathematically prodigy of a daughter; suffers from an unspecified mental illness that causes him to fill reams of notebooks with complete nonsense; desperately longing for the days when his mind was still capable.

Hal (age 28) - graduate student and devotee of Robert; a nerd perhaps and awkward often, but he retains a self-awareness and compassion that brings him into a romantic relationship with Catherine; a complicated character with questionable motives at first but who ultimately provides the turning point for Catherine at this most vulnerable time in her life.

Claire (age 30) - Catherine's sister, breezy and business-like. Unlike Catherine's brooding, Claire holds her feelings about their father in check and decides to take on the role of caretaker to her sister (who Claire believes is showing signs of mental illness). Claire has a good job in New York and has been paying the medical bills for her father while Catherine was the one taking care of him. Much unresolved conflict and history surfaces between Claire and Catherine.

FORMAT: The audition will consist of sides from the play. Email director@trinitystreetplayers.com for sides if you wish to prepare them ahead of time (encouraged). There will be individual readings and paired readings. Headshots and resume are not required, but you may bring them if you have them, and you are not already on file with TSP. VERY IMPORTANT: Bring your list of conflicts during the months of Jan, Feb, and early March.

ADDITIONAL DATES: Rehearsals will begin the first week of January, four per week. Actors will be asked to attend rehearsals only when working on their scenes. All actors will be expected to have lines memorized before rehearsals begin.

Show dates are: Feb 17, 18, 19; Feb 23, 24, 25; Mar 1, 2, 3

For more information contact David McCullars, Director at director@trinitystreetplayers.com -- website: http://www.trinitystreetplayers.com

Images from Proof, Gaslight Baker Theatre, Lockhart, April 29 - May 14

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Proof

by David Auburn
directed by Todd Martin

April 29 - May 14

Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm

MATINEES - Sunday May 8 & Saturday May 14 at 2 pm
Regular Adult Tickets $12 - Senior & Children Tickets $10 Click Here to Buy Tickets

2001 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Awardfor Best Play THIS PLAY DOES CONTAIN SOME ADULT LANGUAGE AND MATURE THEMES

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 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?

"…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.

"[A] wonderfully poignant…ambitiously constructed work…" - Variety.

Cast
Catherine: Lydia Pilot
Robert: Donald Owen
Hal: Ernesto Manzano
Claire: Maggie Bell

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Upcoming: Proof, Gaslight Baker Theatre, Lockhart, April 29 - May 14

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presents

Proof

by David Auburn
directed by Todd Martin

April 29 - May 14

Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm

MATINEES - Sunday May 8 & Saturday May 14 at 2 pm
Regular Adult Tickets $12 - Senior & Children Tickets $10 Click Here to Buy Tickets

2001 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Awardfor Best Play THIS PLAY DOES CONTAIN SOME ADULT LANGUAGE AND MATURE THEMES

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 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?

"…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.

"[A] wonderfully poignant…ambitiously constructed work…" - Variety.

Cast
Catherine: Lydia Pilot
Robert: Donald Owen
Hal: Ernesto Manzano
Claire: Maggie Bell

Upcoming: Proof by David Auburn, Way Off Broadway Community Players, Leander, February 25 - March 19

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Proof

by David Auburn

directed by Tracy Cathey

February 25 - March 19

Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sunday March 6 at 3 p.m.

Way Off Broadway Community Players

Building 4 at 11880 W. FM 2243 in Leander, TX, between US 183 and Bagdad Road (click for map)

On the eve of her 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 father's who hopes to find valuable work in the 103 notebooks that her father left behind. Over the long weekend that follows certain events such as a burgeoning romance, flashbacks of her father and the discovery of a mysterious notebook, combine to draw Catherine into the most difficult problem of all: How much of her father's madness—or genius—will she inherit?

Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best Play, Proof "…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."

Upcoming: Proof, Austin Playhouse Larry L. King Stage, January 28 - February 20

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Proof

by David Auburn

January 28 - February 20

Austin Playhouse Larry L. King Theatre at Penn Field (click for map)

Thursdays-Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 5 p.m.

Austin Playhouse explores the link between genius and madness in David Auburn's Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning drama Proof. The drama-mystery runs four weeks - from January 28th through February 20th - in the Larry L. King Theatre. Written in 2001, the drama scored the Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award, Joseph Kesselring Prize and Drama Desk Award. The story was produced for the big screen in a 2005 feature film starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins and Jake Gyllenhaal.

Proof explores complex relationships - similar to a mathematical equation - between a father and daughter, rival sisters, and two young lovers. Catherine, a young woman with unmistakable symptoms of clinical depression, takes care of her former genius of a mathematician father through a long struggle with mental illness. While celebrating her 25th birthday, she begins to wonder how much of her father's genius - and madness - she's inherited.

Directed by Lara Toner and Cyndi Williams, the Austin production features Molly Karrasch (Educating Rita), Tom Parker (The Trip to Bountiful, Picasso at the Lapin Agile), Lara Toner (The 39 Steps), and David Meissner.

Performances run Thursdays through Saturdays at 8 p.m., and Sunday at 5 p.m. Tickets are $20, with half-price tickets for students.

Austin Playhouse is located at 3601 S. Congress, Bldg. C, in the Penn Field Center. For reservations and more information, call (512) 476-0084 or visit www.AustinPlayhouse.com.

Upcoming: Proof by David Auburn, Austin Playhouse, January 28 - February 20

Found on-line:

presents

Proof

by David Auburn

January 28 - February 20

Austin Playhouse Larry L. King Theatre at Penn Field (click for map)

Thursdays-Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 5 p.m.

Austin Playhouse explores the link between genius and madness in David Auburn's Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning drama Proof. The drama-mystery runs four weeks - from January 28th through February 20th - in the Larry L. King Theatre. Written in 2001, the drama scored the Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award, Joseph Kesselring Prize and Drama Desk Award. The story was produced for the big screen in a 2005 feature film starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins and Jake Gyllenhaal.

Proof explores complex relationships - similar to a mathematical equation - between a father and daughter, rival sisters, and two young lovers. Catherine, a young woman with unmistakable symptoms of clinical depression, takes care of her former genius of a mathematician father through a long struggle with mental illness. While celebrating her 25th birthday, she begins to wonder how much of her father's genius - and madness - she's inherited.

Directed by Lara Toner and Cyndi Williams, the Austin production features Molly Karrasch (Educating Rita), Tom Parker (The Trip to Bountiful, Picasso at the Lapin Agile), Lara Toner (The 39 Steps), and David Meissner.

Performances run Thursdays through Saturdays at 8 p.m., and Sunday at 5 p.m. Tickets are $20, with half-price tickets for students.

Austin Playhouse is located at 3601 S. Congress, Bldg. C, in the Penn Field Center. For reservations and more information, call (512) 476-0084 or visit www.AustinPlayhouse.com.