Workshop Theatre Presents PROOF Written By David Auburn
March 4 - March 12, 2015 at the Pumphouse Theatre
Directed by: Ed Ogum
Audition Dates: Wednesday, December 9, 2015 & Monday,
December 14, 2015 from 6-10
Workshop Theatre
space.
Bay 10 415 60 Ave
SE
Calgary, AB
Synopsis
Catherine 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?
Character Breakdown
CATHERINE - A young woman, 25 years old, who inherited
much 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 -
Catherine's older sister, a practical and business-minded woman who has been
comfortably successful in her work and relationships.
She left Robert and Catherine behind, distancing herself
from the run-down family home of her youth. She left the family to make a new
life for herself in New York City.
ROBERT - A
recently deceased mathematician praised for his groundbreaking 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
- 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.
Audition
Requirements
Auditions will be
held in pre-scheduled 10 minute time slots. Please contact Kayte Davies, at kayteparnell@yahoo.ca with your
headshot & resume, and to schedule a time. Please prepare a 1-2 minute
dramatic monologue. There will also be sides sent out, so that you can be
familiar with them.
