PROOF

By: David AuburnLiv Favaro

EXPOSITION:

Setting: Chicago

Time Setting: Present Day

Major Character::• Catherine : twenty five year old daughter of Robert. A

mathematical genius just like her father• Hal: one of Robert’s old students who finds Catherine after

her father’s death and wants to look at his work.• Robert: Catherine & Claire(Catherine’s sister)’s father : a

mathematic genius, who has passed away.• Claire: Catherine’s successful and happy sister who lives

in NY with her fiancé, Mitch. She is trying to help Catherine out of her depression.

Catherine and Claire’s famous mathematician father, has

already passed away before the play begins so Catherine is seen

in a state of depression and Claire is only trying to help.

Hal shows up and talks to Catherine about her father and his

works and how much he had admired everything he taught him.

Catherine really just wants Hal to leave her alone, but she ends

up somewhat falling for him along the way.

Hal tries to get Catherine to tell him more and show him more

of her father’s notebooks and she finally gives in.

When Hal finds a notebook with work in it that Catherine said

she had done herself, he doesn’t believe her at all along with

Claire , Catherine’s sister.

Catherine is upset by them not believing that she

could have done the work all by herself so she gets

into an argument with her sister and Hal.

When Catherine once again decides to speak with

her sister, Claire asks her to come back to New York

City to be with her and Mitch.

Catherine sees Hal again, allowing him to have the

notebook and tells him to figure everything out.

CONFLCT:

Catherine didn’t want her father’s memories and

hard work to be ruined by Hal going through all his

belongings and taking what she had left of him.

PROTAGONIST: CATHERINE

I would say that Catherine became a round

character during the course of the play.

She encountered the problem of her father passing

on and Hal coming into her life.

She learned that maybe she should have listened to

her father when he told her she was smart and she

should have continued with school after he passed.