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“Proof” On October 25, 2000, the Manhattan Theatre Club presented its first Broadway production of “Proof” at the Walter Kerr Theatre in New York, New York. Thomas Burke states that the play is about a young woman named Catherine who has just lost her father, a renowned mathematician known for solving complicated proofs, to an undefined mental illness that had plagued him for nearly ten years. Burke goes on to say that as Catherine copes with her loss and the reality that she could be destined to the same illness, she must also deal with her manipulative sister, Claire, who has just returned from New York, and one of her father’s oldest pupils, Hal, who relentlessly searches her father’s notebooks for research topics. The reviews of Carolyn Albert, Thomas Burke, and Clive Barnes gave the play credibility and attractiveness. The reviewers’ negative comments were few and far between. Overall, the reviewers deemed the play mysterious, charming, compassionate, and entirely worthwhile. Critics Thomas Burke and Clive Barnes both begin their reviews by commenting on the fact that “Proof” isn’t really about mathematics at all.
Approximate Word count = 659
Approximate Pages = 2.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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