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Samuel French Ltd Proof
Book SynopsisCatherine has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, Robert. When he dies she has more than grief to deal with: there''s her estranged sister, Claire, and Hal, a former student of her father''s who hopes to find valuable work in the 103 notebooks that Robert left behind. And a further problem: how much of her father''s madness - or genius - will Catherine inherit?Gwyneth Paltrow starred in this Pultizer Prize-winning play which opened at the Donmar Warehouse in 2001.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) David Auburn Collected Plays
Book SynopsisDavid Auburn is a playwright, director and screenwriter. Plays include Summer 1976, The Adventures of Augie March (based on the Saul Bellow novel), Lost Lake, The Columnist, and Proof (2001 Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award, New York Drama Critics Circle Award). He is Associate Artistic Director of the Berkshire Theatre Group, where he has directed many productions, including Dracula, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Petrified Forest, Anna Christie, and A Delicate Balance. Other directing credits include Long Day's Journey into Night (Court Theatre, Chicago) and the Off-Broadway world premiere of Michael Weller's Side Effects (MCC). Film work includes The Girl in the Park (writer/director), Georgetown, and The Lake House. TV includes current projects for HBO/Amblin. A former Guggenheim Fellow, he lives in New York City. He/him.
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Faber & Faber Proof A Play
Book SynopsisDavid Auburn''s Proof won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and was adapted to film by director John Madden, starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins, and Jake Gyllenhaal.One of the most acclaimed plays of its time, Proof is a work that explores the unknowability of love as much as it does the mysteries of science.It focuses on Catherine, a young woman who has spent years caring for her father, Robert, a brilliant mathematician in his youth who was later unable to function without her help. His death has brought into her midst both her sister, Claire, who wants to take Catherine back to New York with her, and Hal, a former student of Catherine''s father who hopes to find some hint of Robert''s genius among his incoherent scribblings. The passion that Hal feels for math both moves and angers Catherine, who, in her exhaustion, is torn between missing her father and resenting the great sacrifices she made for him. For Catherine has inherited at least a
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Samuel French Ltd Summer 1976
Book SynopsisA deeply moving tenderly insightful play about friendship memory and the small moments that can change the course of our lives forever. Over one fateful summer an unlikely friendship develops between Diana a fiercely iconoclastic artist and single mom and Alice a free-spirited yet naive young housewife. As the Bicentennial is celebrated across the country these two young women in Ohio navigate motherhood ambition and intimacy and help each other discover their own independence.
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