08/07/2025
Announcing auditions for PROOF, by David Auburn. August 26 and 27 at 7 PM in the Great Basin College Studio Theatre, 1025 Chilton Circle, across the street from the GBC Theatre.
Performance Dates: October 16-18 and 23-25.
Directed by John Patrick Rice
Prepare a one to two minute contemporary monologue. Please contact [email protected] for information and to confirm interest. Open to GBC students and the community at large.
Character Breakdown:
Catherine: A woman in her mid-twenties, she is intelligent and possesses a sharp wit, but is also prone to emotional outbursts and vulnerability. She has recently cared for her father, Robert, during his mental illness and fears inheriting his instability. She is deeply connected to her father and his work.
Claire: Catherine's older sister, Claire, is successful, independent, and somewhat controlling. She lives in New York and tries to manage Catherine's life after their father's death, suggesting a move and institutionalization.
Robert: A brilliant mathematician who suffered from mental illness in his later years, Robert is seen in flashbacks and Catherine's imagination. He is revered for his mathematical genius, but also feared for its potential link to madness.
Hal Dobbs: One of Robert's former students, Hal is initially respectful of Robert and his work. He discovers a groundbreaking mathematical proof, but wrongly assumes it was written by Robert, highlighting the play's central conflict and themes of doubt and perception.
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 fatherās 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 fatherās madnessāor geniusāwill she inherit?
