In this
Pulitzer and Tony award-winning play, David Auburn explores the dilemmas of family
relations, dementia, heredity, and genius. Partly by reading sections of the
play aloud in class, and partly by discussion, we will consider different
possibilities of staging, directing, and acting to see the various ways one
might present the characterization and even the meaning of the play.
Suggested Readings: Any copy of
David Auburn’s Proof. I will be using the Dramatists Play Service
edition in class.Please read the play
before the first class.
John Trainor
has been involved in theater since his undergraduate days at Williams College,
and has acted and directed in Africa, the Bahamas, and locally in the
Berkshires and New York State. This will be the seventh theater course has
taught for OLLI at BCC.
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