Steve Martin
Director
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Proof was originally produced by the Manhattan Theatre Club on 23 May 2000. It then went to Broadway on 24 October 2000 at the Walter Kerr Theatre. In 2001, it received the following awards – Drama Desk Award for Best New Play, Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, New York Drama Critic's Circle Best Play, Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and Tony Award for Best Play. It was released as a movie in 2005, starring Gwyneth Paltrow.
THE STORY: 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? |
