Proof
by David Auburn

TheatreZone is putting David Auburn's Play on the Chelsea Theatre Works' stage, where every revelation and ambiguity, every conflict, every surprise is delivered, live, by real, breathing people --- not shadows on a screen. Family conflicts, jokes, madness, death itself and, yes, triumph and several kinds of love are all there, for the live audience to see, to experience, to share --- and to think about on the way home. I haven't seen the movie myself; but now I don't have to. I lived it with the cast. .....

On the stage, this is the daughter's story --- considering her insistence that she did major theoretical work at night, after all the dusting and dinner and care for her father. But it doesn't look like a star-vehicle here; more like an ensemble, all circling a nuclear mass of ideas like electrons in an atom. Director Danielle Fauteux Jacques saw to that. I wonder if that film can possibly be as intensely interesting?

-Theater Mirror

Proof follows a young woman's struggle with her fractured life while coping with the death of her brilliant but unstable father. her estranged sister, the attentions of a former student of her father, and 103 notebooks her father left behind. Over the funeral weekend, a burgeoning romance and the discovery of a mysterious notebook draw Catherine to her most difficult problem: how much of her father's madness, or genius, will she inherit?

Becca A. Lewis played the role of Catherine. Becca hails from Mule Town, Tennessee and won a Memphis Theater Award for Best Actress. On route to Boston she studied acting in England, and spent a year in a Newport Mansion recreating life in 1891. She has become a favorite with TheatreZone audiences for her performances in The Seagull, Anger Box, The Shape of Things, Rhinoceros, Blood Wedding, and Phyro-Giants.