When: Jan 15 and 16 at 6:00 pm
Where: FCT

On the eve of her 25th birthday, Catherine, a troubled young woman, has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, a famous mathematician. Now, following his death, she must deal with her own volatile emotions; the arrival of her estranged sister, Claire; and the attentions of Hal, a former student of her father’s who hopes to find valuable work in the 103 notebooks that her father left behind. Over the long weekend that follows, a burgeoning romance and the discovery of a mysterious notebook draw Catherine into the most difficult problem of all: How much of her father’s madness — or genius — will she inherit?

Available roles (and playable ages) include:
Catherine, mid-20s: A young woman who inherited at least some of her father’s mathematical genius, and, she fears, his ‘instability’ as well; she gave up her life and schooling to take care of her father until his recent death.

Claire, late-20s: Catherine’s older sister, a no-nonsense, take-charge kind of gal who left Robert and Catherine behind in the run-down family home on the edge of the University of Chicago campus where Robert taught to make a life for herself in New York City.

Robert, 50s: A recently-deceased mathematician who did brilliant, breakthrough work in his youth, but whose later years were plagued by delusional mental illness; he is seen in Catherine’s imagination and in flashbacks.

Harold (Hal) Dobbs, late-20s: One of Robert’s last Ph.D. students during the one year his idol and mentor’s illness went into remission, at least enabling Robert to teach, if not continue his own creative mathematical work.

Auditions will consist of readings from the script.
Please email me with any questions: bradleyalanrowe@gmail.com. Include ‘Proof auditions’ in the subject line.