Smart drama explores relationship between genius, mental illness

Whitefish Theatre Company presents a Black Curtain reading of “Proof” by David Auburn, winner of the Tony Award for Best Play and Pulitzer Prize for Drama.  

On the eve of her 25th birthday, Catherine, a quick-witted and stubborn young woman, has spent years caring for Robert, her unstable but brilliant father known as a mathematical genius at the University of Chicago. Following his death, she must deal with her own volatile emotions, the arrival of her estranged sister and the attentions of Hal, a former student of her father’s who discovers a paradigm-shifting proof about prime numbers in the 103 notebooks 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 problems of all: Can Catherine prove the proof's authorship?