“In order for your friends to take you out, you generally have to have friends,” Catherine tells her doting father the morning of her 25th birthday near the opening of the Pulitzer winning play “Proof,” which returns to the Iola Community Theater this weekend for its final run.
Catherine is depressed, and her father nags her about her retreat form the world of complex math —an endeavor that defined her life before she gave up college to care for him in his waning mental state.
Her birthday brings the burden of acknowledging her family legacy — mathematical genius — and madness. She is befriended by one of her father’s former students, a self-proclaimed math geek who plays in a rock band.
“They get laid surprisingly often,” he says of his bandmates. “It kind of makes you question the whole set of terms — nerd, geek, paste eater.”
Proof questions other presumptions, too.
The play relies on the tension between Catherine, her sister Claire and interloper Hal, the geek.
It runs Friday and Saturday at the Warehouse Theater. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. with curtains rising at 7:30 p.m. Ticket price includes desert. Tickets are available at Sophisticated Rose and at the door.
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