The Community Light Opera and Theater Association's upcoming stage offering, “Proof”—opening March 5 at Center Stage—swept the 2001 Broadway season’s awards for best play. Judges for the Pulitzer Prize, the Tony, the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award and the Lucille Lortel Award all chose playwright David Auburn’s fascinating exploration of the questionable line between intellectual virtuosity and delusional folly.
New York Magazine compared Auburn to “Arthur Miller and Eugene O'Neill and Lillian Hellman, in earlier generations … always writing about big ideas and wrapping them in family squabbles that get us where we live.” The New York Daily News critic noted that the play “combines elements of mystery and surprise with old-fashioned storytelling to provide a compelling evening of theatre.”
The often-humorously squabbling family in "Proof" consists of a brilliant but unstable University of Chicago math professor (played by John Slate) and his two daughters. One of these young women (K. Pearl Woolam) is a no-nonsense Manhattan currency analyst who finds herself estranged from her younger sister (Rachel Schmalenberger.) The latter has remained on home ground to nurse their father through lengthy periods of mental illness. An ex-graduate student (Andrew Gray) triggers complex results—some droll, some daunting—when he discovers a paradigm-shifting proof of advanced theoretical mathematics among the professor’s notes and raises the question of its authorship: is it the work of the virtuoso mathematician himself or of his stay-at-home daughter?
CLOTA Director Barbara Roberts thinks “the audience will enjoy seeing how this all works out as much as we’ve enjoyed putting it all together.” Because of the nature of the play’s subject matter and contemporary language CLOTA recommends this production for mature audiences.
Following its March 5 début, "Proof" will play 7:30 evening performances March 6, 12, 13, 19 & 20. A Sunday matinee begins at 2:00 on the 14th. Doors open 30 minutes before lights-up time. Center Stage is at 1425 N. Inyo.
Tickets are available at Red Rock Books: $12 general admission, $10 for seniors, students, enlisted active-duty military and CLOTA members; all tickets for opening night and the Sunday matinee are special-priced at $8.00. For more information, please leave a callback request on the CLOTA hotline: 1+760-446-2411.
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