ProofA Play

A gripping drama about mathematical equations. (Seriously.)
Winner of the 2001 Tony award for Best Play and the 2001 Pulitzer Prize, Proof takes on the seemingly impossible problem of turning mathematical equations into gripping drama and solves it, elegantly. College dropout Catherine came home to care for her famous father, a brilliant but mad University of Chicago mathematician who, even in death, looms large in her life. In one of the notebooks filled with his ravings her father's young protégé, Hal, discovers the proof to a once-thought unsolvable equation. He is first elated, and then supremely skeptical when self-taught Catherine claims that the work is actually hers, not her gaga da-da's. Auburn leaves us wondering along with Hal where the truth lies, while Catherine and her capable older sister struggle to make sure she doesn't succumb to the same insanity that claimed her father. Real-life former crazy Anne Heche plays Catherine opposite Jeremy Sisto's suspicious, secretly smitten Hal.