{"id":926,"date":"2005-08-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-24T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/blog\/news\/?p=926"},"modified":"2005-08-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-24T04:00:00","slug":"academic-year-opens-with-theater-piece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2005\/academic-year-opens-with-theater-piece\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic Year Opens With Theater Piece"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"photo right\" style=\"width: 150px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" src=\"\/news\/images\/proofplay.jpg\" alt=\"Proof play poster\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A delay in final inspection of electrical conduit work in the new Mainstage Theater at Eastern Mennonite University has changed the play dates for the EMU Theater production of &quot;Proof,&quot; originally scheduled to open this Thursday, Sept. 1. <\/p>\n<p> Theater at EMU will perform the critically-acclaimed play 7 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 7-8, and 7 p.m. Sat., Sept. 10, in the Mainstage Theater in what was the old EMU gymnasium on the south end of the University Commons. The intimate 161-seat theater space was constructed in part with considerable volunteer labor from faculty, students and community persons. <\/p>\n<p> &quot;Proof,&quot; by David Auburn, and directed by Patrick R.K. Reynolds, visiting assistant professor of theater at EMU, won the 2001 Pulitzer Price and Tony Award for &quot;Best Play.&quot; <\/p>\n<p> &quot;I regret the unexpected delay, but it&#8217;ll be worth the wait,&quot; Reynolds said. &quot;This is a powerful play, and even though the cast was ready for opening night, we&#8217;ll be able to do several additional rehearsals.&quot; <\/p>\n<p> Auburn&#8217;s masterpiece revolves around Catherine, a troubled young woman who has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, a famous mathematician. On the eve of her 25th birthday, following his death, she must confront her own volatile emotions; the arrival of her estranged sister, Claire; and the attentions of Hal, a former student of her father&#8217;s who hopes to find valuable work in the 103 notebooks that her father left behind. <\/p>\n<p> 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&#8217;s madness &#8211; or genius <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A delay in final inspection of electrical conduit work in the new Mainstage Theater at Eastern Mennonite University has changed the play dates for the EMU Theater production of &quot;Proof,&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2005\/academic-year-opens-with-theater-piece\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about Academic Year Opens With Theater Piece<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5147],"tags":[8095,7433,6198],"feature":[],"class_list":["post-926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theater","tag-david-auburn","tag-patrick-r-k-reynolds","tag-play"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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