Doha: The Doha Players theatre group will stage a play by the American playwright David Auburn in Qatar this weekend. ‘Proof’, the play that won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play, is already a hit among Qatar residents with tickets sold out for Wednesday and Saturday shows.
To be performed at Lulua Room in Radisson Blu Hotel, tickets for the 7:30 pm show are available for Thursday, September 26, and Friday, September 27, which will also include a pre-show international buffet dinner for QR220.
‘Proof’ is directed by Christina Paschyn, a documentary filmmaker and assistant professor of journalism at Northwestern University in Qatar. The cast includes Emike Umolu, a news anchor, Chris Parnell, a senior consultant anaesthetist at HMC, Thomas Walton, a teacher, and Trish Slade, a veterinary nurse.
The play, premiered off-Broadway in May 2000 and transferred to Broadway in October 2000, talks about Catherine, daughter of a recently deceased mathematical genius in his fifties and a university professor Robert, and her own struggle with mathematical genius and mental illness. Catherine had cared for her father through a lengthy illness, upon his death, his ex-graduate student Hal discovers a paradigm-shifting proof about prime numbers in Robert and Catherine's home. The title refers both to that proof and to the play's central question: Can Catherine prove the proof's authorship? Throughout, the play explores Catherine's fear of following in her father's footsteps, both mathematically and mentally and her desperate attempts to stay in control.
The Doha Players Community Theatre group which has members from over 20 different countries was established in 1954, bringing theatre to Qatar for 65 years.
