The Suffield Players -- Photo Gallery/Proof

Proof, October, 2019

by David Auburn	Costumes by Patricia McMahon
directed by Chris Rohmann	Set design by Konrad Rogowski and Kelly Seip

A young Chicago woman has just lost her brilliant mathematician father. He was a genius, but he started to lose touch with reality in his final years. She is beset by such problems as closing the house, dealing with her controlling sister, and wondering if her father's condition will be visited on her.

Catherine (Alyssa Walters) talks with her father, Robert (Konrad Rogowski), in their back yard on her birthday.

Hal (Joseph Van Allen) comes out of the house, disturbing Catherine's reverie. She was just imagining talking to her recently deceased father. Hal is a graduate student going over her father's notebooks for the college.		Catherine's sister Claire (Karen Balaska) has flown in to oversee the funeral and selling the house, in addition to worrying about Catherine's mental state.

The morning after the funeral. Robert was a very popular professor and had a great many friends paying respects. Claire perhaps overserved herself.		Catherine has shown Hal a special notebook, containing a mathematical proof that could revolutionize the department. Hal says this proves her father was still doing phenomenal work in his later years. But there's a catch.

Remembering a scene from three years ago, Catherine reads one of Robert's latest notebooks. He says it's probably his best work yet, but it is only gibberish.		Another view of the back yard.

Some projections we used during scene changes.