SUNY Oneonta’s Mask and Hammer Theatre Club will perform David Auburn’s “Proof,” directed by Jessy Gardner, in the Hamblin Theater October 24-26 at 7:30 p.m. and at 2 p.m. on October 27.…
The show itself depicts two sisters, Catherine and Claire, dealing with the death of their father, Robert, a genius mathematics professor at the University of Chicago, who dies in his 50s after a lengthy battle with mental illness. Also in the play is Hal, formerly Robert’s graduate student, now a member of the mathematics department. Hal revered his former mentor and is dealing with his own grief by working to elevate and capture all Robert’s work so that his legacy…