Auditions for “Proof”
Ramona Hillside Players in Hemet, CA will hold open auditions for “Proof”.
Written by David Auburn
Directed by Rossi C. Smith
Auditions will be held on September 16th & 17th 2024. You do not need to attend both days.
Auditions are from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM. Doors open at 6:45. You are welcome to arrive any time between then and 8:30. You will not be required to stay the entire time.
Callbacks will be on the 18th. Callbacks are not required, but GREATLY recommended.
The audition will consist of a combination of a cold reading and a creative, emotional improv.
Please come prepared with a resume, headshot, pen/pencil, and a list of conflicts.
Performance dates are November 15th, 16th, 17th, 22nd, 23rd, & 24th, 2024 @ RHP in Hemet.
PLOT:
Winner of the 2001 Tony Award® for Best Play and Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
THE STORY: On the eve of her twenty-fifth birthday, Catherine, a troubled young woman, has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, a famous mathematician. Now, following his death, she must deal with her own volatile emotions; the arrival of her estranged sister, Claire; and the attentions of Hal, a former student of her father’s who hopes to find valuable work in the 103 notebooks that her father left behind. Over the long weekend that follows, a burgeoning romance and the discovery of a mysterious notebook draw Catherine into the most difficult problem of all: How much of her father’s madness—or genius—will she inherit?
CAST OF CHARACTERS:
*** All Ages are Relative ***
Catherine – A young woman, 25 years old, who inherited much of her father’s mathematical genius and, she fears, his “instability” as well; she gave up her life and schooling to take care of her father until his recent death.
Claire – Catherine’s older sister, a practical and business-minded woman who has been comfortably successful in her work and relationships. She left Robert and Catherine behind, distancing herself from the run-down family home of her youth. She left the family to make a new life for herself in New York City.
Robert – A recently deceased mathematician praised for his groundbreaking work in his youth, but whose later years were plagued by delusional mental illness; he is seen in Catherine’s imagination and in flashbacks.
Harold (Hal) Dobbs – One of Robert’s last Ph.D. students during the one year his idol and mentor’s illness went into remission, at least enabling Robert to teach, if not continue his own creative mathematical work.
27402 Ramona Bowl Road
Hemet, CA 92544
https://www.ramonahillsideplayers.org
https://www.facebook.com/ramonahillsideplayers
https://www.instagram.com/playersrhp/