Proof: A Play
 

Proof: A Play

by David Auburn

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize One of the most acclaimed plays of the 1999-2000 season, Proof is a work that explores the unknowability of love as much as it does the mysteries of science. It focuses on Catherine, a young woman who has spent years caring for her father, Robert, a brilliant mathematician in his youth who was later unable to function without her help. His death has brought... (read more)

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Dave N
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this'll sound witty, but it's sad: i lost faith in the pulitzer when i read this play, contemplated it for weeks, wrote a paper about it's use of the "unknown" as an element of suspense and failed miserably at finding any relevant meaning besides being monumented as an american text.

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