Proof is a play by the American playwright David Auburn. Proof was developed at George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey, during the 1999 Next Stage Series of new plays. The play premiered Off-Broadway in May 2000 and transferred to Broadway in October 2000. It won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play.
Adaptations (1)
Proof was adapted into a 2005 film.
Proof2005 · film · 100 min · dir. John Madden · IMDb ↗Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant and well-known mathematician whose grip on reality is beginning to slip away. As Robert descends into madness, Catherine begins to wonder if she may have inherited her father's mental illness along with his mathematical genius.
