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<div dir="ltr"><font size="+0">Opening Night Reception<br><br>Join us for opening night and stay for the reception after the<br>performance.<br><br>The University Playhouse presents Proof, by David Auburn, October 9-13<br>
at 8:00 PM and October 14, at 3:00 PM. For reservations, call<br><a href="tel:903-886-5900" target="_blank" value="+19038865900">903-886-5900</a>, or e-mail <a href="mailto:playhouseboxoffice@cp.tamuc.edu" target="_blank">playhouseboxoffice@cp.tamuc.edu</a><br>
<<a href="mailto:playhouseboxoffice@cp.tamuc.edu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">mailto:playhouseboxoffice@cp.tamuc.edu</a>><br><br>In 2001, Proof garnered the Drama Desk Award for Best New Play, the<br>Lucile Lortle Award for Outstanding Play, the New York Drama Critics'<br>
Circle Award for Best Play, The Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony<br>Award for Best Play.<br><br>The story revolves around a mysterious, ground-breaking mathematical<br>calculation that will revolutionize the science of Mathematics. Set in a<br>
run-down house at the edge of the University of Chicago campus, where<br>Catherine and her, father, Robert, have lived for years. In his youth,<br>Robert amazed the world of Mathematics with his brilliant, "elegant and<br>
musical" calculations. His later years are lost to a delusional mental<br>disorder. Catherine foregoes her own dreams to care for her father at<br>home. Catherine has inherited some of Robert's talent, but worries that<br>
she may follow in his footsteps in other ways, as well. She has led a<br>lonely, unrewarding existence, when, a week before her twenty fifth<br>birthday, Robert dies. Catherine's sister, Claire, who left the family<br>
to pursue a career in currency analysis in New York, flies in to take<br>charge of the situation.<br><br>Hal, Robert's former student asks Catherine for permission to<br>investigate Robert's papers for anything of mathematical value. An odd,<br>
awkward attraction forms between them, which is strained by the central<br>question of the story: who wrote the miraculous, game-changing proof,<br>found locked in Robert's desk?<br><br>David Auburn weaves intelligent, if dark humor into the plot of Proof,<br>
which is part ghost story, part love story, and is filled with intense<br>drama throughout. It celebrates creativity and innovation, and explores<br>the territory where the line between art and science blurs.<br><br>Cast : Cynthia Renee Elizabeth Beene, form Grand Prairie, Texas as<br>
Catherine; Piper Miq'el Bardwell, of Princeton, Texas, as Claire; Sri<br>Chilukuri, from Dallas, Texas, as Harold Dobbs. The role of Robert is<br>played by John Hanners, Professor Emeritus, and retired Head of Mass<br>
Media Communication and Theatre. Professor of Mathematics, Stuart<br>Anderson, Ph.D. served as consultant to the production<br><br>There will be a complementary reception following the performance on<br>opening night.<br>
<br>The play contains adult situations and language.</font><br></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div><br>