Proof: A Play by David Auburn Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Proof: A Play
Book Review: PROOF, the play
Summary: 1 Stars
I have returned the book to the seller, Penn Text in Willow grove, PA. and have requested a full refund. The book was so marked up as to be practically unuseable.
William Raper, Jr.
Book Review: Proof for Pleasure
Summary: 5 Stars
IF you are into sarcastic humor and enjoy some dry wit this is a book for you. Short w/ the sweet and sour sauce it will fit your taste buds to a T. Awesome readBook Review: Proof is in the pudding
Summary: 5 Stars
A very well wriiten play. You will read it in one sitting, very hard to put down. For those actresses out there , this play contains two amazing female characters.Book Review: Proof the play is proof what flawless drama should be.
Summary: 5 Stars
To use hyperbole to express onto readers the profundity and intelligence or 'mother wit' of this play would not do it a hint of justice, but rather, it would be another run-of-the-mill complementary liturgy. It won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. And that alone speaks volumes.Using an atmosphere or background in which mathematics is prevalent - but not entirely so in respects to clearly jotted out theorems and formulas (for everything that is math oriented in this drama is rather undefined and ambigous) - the play's theme(s) gyrate around one central character: twenty-five-year-old Catherine, her dad's care provider and an unknown math genius and three strong supporting characters, sometimes very aseptic and in other turns quite audacious: Robert, the Dad, a former math professor/academic math celebrity, in his fifties, Hal, twenty-five, a semi-carefree educator and graduate student under Robert and lastly, Claire, twenty-nine, a nagging sister to Catherine and daughter of Robert.
When one thinks of super bookishly or scholastically (research-wise, that is) gifted individuals, it is normally believed that folks of this nature tend to lean towards the sidelines - to a realm of reflective alienation and unavoidable, suffocating derangement: madness through and through. This is a commonly held perception that is strongly associated to those rare math demigods/goddesses. They are deemed (but not always) as shy, introverted, awkward, asexual social oddities who are mentally a tad off kilter in the world of beer slurping, vulgar/inelegant party celebrants. However, the Hal character in the play mitigates that academic myth....
Proof, in essence, is almost written like a mathematical illustration or equation. The play - scene by scene - is broken up like a puzzle; it flutters backward and forward. And you have to go back, like in a math problem, in order to solve it.
Whatever Proof is, there is no denying that it is a startling, shotgunning drama that is worthy of vast readership. That alone is the highest complement one can pay to an author.
Book Review: Proof well written
Summary: 5 Stars
The play Proof by David Auburn was very well written, it was a cliff hanger that you can't put down. I read the play in about 3 hours, since it was a short play it was very fast to read, but the excitement of the book wanted me not to stop reading at all. I felt that the story was written very well, and used a lot of emphasis to describe its characters.
The play is about a woman named Catherine, and her father Robert. After her father dies, her sister Claire comes home after being gone for years. Catherine took care of her unstable father so he didn't have to go to a retirement home, or a resting home. One of her father's students Hal, works with her, and finds something (proof). After finding it her sister Claire tries to take over her life. And you have to read the play to know what the "proof" is and what happens between Hal and Catherine, and Claire and Catherine. Will Catherine inherit her father's genius or his madness?
The only thing I didn't like about the play was that it used a lot of swear words and I thought that it would have been a good book without having the words but it was still very well written. I also thought that some of the scenes didn't have enough description to them so you didn't really know what was going on.