Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award Winning Play to Hit LRU Stage

Standing – Katelyn Crawford

Sitting – Cody Watson and Leah Staton

The Lenoir-Rhyne University Playmakers will present David Auburn’s play “Proof” February 23-27 in the P. E. Monroe Auditorium on campus.

Directed by Mia Self, this Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning drama shows a legacy of madness, a mysterious proof and the hope of love.

The story revolves around Catherine, a troubled young woman who has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father Robert, 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? 


LRU senior theatre major Katelyn Crawford is playing the role of Catherine and Leah Staton, senior English education major, is in the role of her estranged sister Claire. Cody Watson, a junior theater major, plays the character Hal while Brendan Chaney, a senior internal relations major, fills the role of Catherine’s father, Robert.

The upcoming production of “Proof” will be presented on Wednesday, Feb. 23 through Saturday, Feb. 26 at 7:30 pm and Sunday, Feb. 27 at 2:30 pm.

Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for senior citizens, children and non-LR students, and free for L-R students with ID. For additional information and to make reservations, call 828-328-PLAY or go to www.theatre.lr.edu. Tickets will also be available at the door.