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'PROOF' AN 'INTELLECTUAL AGATHA CHRISTIE'.(Living)

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From: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
Date: 20030113
Author:Stein, Jerry

Byline: Jerry Stein Post staff reporter

David Auburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning "Proof," opening at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park Thursday, is a kind of "intellectual Agatha Christie," according to the actress playing the troubled lead character.

"My character Catherine's father died about a week ago," said Jessica Lancaster. "He had a mental illness and she had been taking care of him for four years. He was a mathematical genius -- like the Einstein of the math world."

During the course of the play, under the direction of Playhouse associate artistic director ...

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