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...fairy tales can be the darkest kind there are, and in the case of Olive (and Fludd and most of the other creative types portrayed here), a life in the arts has psychic costs. Often it's the next generation that pays. Eventually the children, in particular Olive's daughter Dorothy, eclipse their parents in both the plot and our sympathies. This makes sense in a novel about a transitional era, but it also makes for a disorienting reading experience. For several hundred pages, it's hard to know which characters most deserve our attention...
Carlos Tory, a 33-year-old U.S.-educated banker, is one of the freshest faces in Lima. He worked as an investment banker in New York City until early June but jumped at the chance to live in Lima with his wife and newborn daughter. He got off the plane and went to work for Interbank...
...beautiful. Dysfunctional yet functional. Warm yet cold. Put simply, real,” according to director Kriti Lodha ’12, who is also a Crimson magazine editor. “Proof” tells the story of Catherine (Caroline R. Giuliani ’11), the daughter of Robert (Robert Rogers, an HRDC alumnus who currently works in the Harvard Math department), a renowned mathematician, who struggles with caring for her genius but mentally ailing father while trying to take care of herself as well. With standout performances by Xanthia A. Tucker ’13, (as Catherine?...
...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...