David Auburn’s Proof, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Tony Award for Best Play and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, comes to Sydney.
Catherine spent years caring for her genius, yet mentally unstable father. He was her idol and her world. She lived in hope of imitating his genius. With his death, she is left alone and lacking focus. As she attempts to pull her life back together, she becomes concerned that she might have inherited both her father’s genius and predisposition to mental illness.
Her internal battles become complicated as one of her father’s former students, Hal, arrives. He hopes to find one final piece of his mentor’s work that can be published. Add to that the reappearance of her older sister, Claire, and Catherine quickly begins to become overwhelmed. As much as Catherine wants to push Hal and Claire away, they are now very much part of her life.
Ylaria Rogers plays Catherine. As she explains, Proof is an “up and down journey” exploring the human condition, and in particular the “need to connect to each other and trust each other”.
Proof makes us realise that as difficult as it can sometimes be to accept the imperfections that make the human condition, it is the connections that we have with others, that make life truly beautiful. (RP)
Jul 13–30, various show times. New Theatre, 542 King Street, Newtown. $25-$35. Tickets & info: newtheatre.org.au/proof
BY RAFFAELE PICCOLO
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