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...best-selling author, broke and eating moose? They ran short on money years ago when Michael, due to illness, had to quit his job as the caretaker of the local cemetery. Carolyn had shared the cash from her book sales and big advances to help her daughter, mother, and several friends. After the books no longer sold, what they had left, mostly, were the family and the friends...
...supplied a simple narrative thread familiar to all mothers: multitasking. This means that if you're already a mother, watching Motherhood is a little like spending a bad day with your most self-involved self. On this day, Eliza must shop for and give a birthday party for her daughter Clara, who is turning 6, care for her toddler (who, Eliza should be grateful, is always nodding off into a convenient nap) and also find the time to pen an essay about "What Motherhood Means to Me" for a contest she would like to win. The piece only...
...Anna's mother, Iva, a 37-year-old brunette on maternity leave. "But court proceedings may take half a year and you will lose your nerves." Iva's grandmother was a local German who avoided expulsion because she was married to a Russian. Despite having German lineage, though, her daughter Anna doesn't want to see Germans return to the area. "I don't mind if they come to visit but I am not keen on them settling here again," she says...
...Vogelman played the socially awkward 28-year-old Hal, a former student of Robert who is clearly in love with Catherine. Nee-Vogelman did a great job of playing both the math-geek trying to impress the daughter of his hero and the intellectual who, during the second half of the play, works tirelessly to validate a proof to save Catherine’s sanity...
Guiliani was also noteworthy, as she movingly alternated from excitement about a possible mathematical breakthrough for her father at the beginning of the scene to the realization that this breakthrough was in fact only his mentally unstable ramblings. Giuliani’s performance of the caring and devoted daughter, especially during this scene, truly thrust the importance of a father-daughter relationship in this play to center stage. At the heart of “Proof “ is a story of love...