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Ultimately, “Adding Machine” lacks the elegant exposition of mathematical concepts found in recent works like David Auburn’s “Proof?? and the 2001 film “A Beautiful Mind,” as well as sophisticated, lucid inquiry into the actual mysteries of life. Instead, the play gestures to too many twentieth century intellectual trends—rejection of religious morality, nihilism, and existentialism—and winds up flailing wildly, spinning like an ideological...
Despite the confusion inherent in such topics as love, insanity, and math, “Proof?? clearly demonstrates the ability to endure regardless...
...world of the Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s production of the award-winning Broadway play “Proof??—which ran in the Loeb Experimental Theatre this weekend—is “horrible yet wonderful. Ugly yet 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...
...Proof?? centers on Catherine, the brilliant but unbalanced daughter of an even more brilliant and unbalanced mathematician, Robert. Upon Robert’s death, Hal, one of his graduate students, discovers a groundbreaking proof on his desk, which Catherine claims she wrote. The question of the proof??s authorship and Catherine’s burgeoning relationship with Hal dominate the plot of the play, amongst Catherine’s struggles over her father’s recent death and her fears about inheriting his insanity. The title thus takes on additional meaning...
...personal relevance of some of the play’s themes helps the cast members of “Proof?? make the play their own. During its numerous theatrical and cinematic iterations, “Proof?? has featured a range of marquee names, including Gwyneth Paltrow as Catherine in the film version and Neil Patrick Harris as Hal on Broadway. To produce a unique version of “Proof,” some of the actors have avoided investigating other versions. “If you go trying to catch up with the big name...