An enigmatic youthful female. A manipulative sister. Their excellent father. An urgent suitor. One life-altering question. The search for the reality behind a mysterious mathematical proof is the perplexing problem in David Auburn’s dynamic play. Starring Anne Heche and Jeremy Sisto, Resistant is successful of the 2001 Tony honor for Greatest Play as well as the 2001 Pulitzer Reward for drama.

Includes an interview with Dr. Carrie Bearden, a Clinical Neuropsychologist and Assistant Professor-in-Residence about Resistant in the Division of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the College or university of California-Los Angeles. Dr. Bearden is working to identify brain-based attributes that might provide clues as to the underlying factors behind psychosis and bipolar disorder. She joined us to speak about the part of heredity in mental illness and the links between genius and madness.

Also includes an interview with Steven Strogatz, a professor on the Cornell College or university School of Theoretical and Applied Mathematics. Dr. Strogatz is the writer of three books, including Sync as well as the Calculus of Companionship, and has authored a column on mathematics for the brand new York Occasions. Dr. Strogatz became a member of us to speak about popular stereotypes of mathematicians, math as a “youthful man’s game,” and the question of gender bias in the field.

An L.A. Theater Works full-cast efficiency featuring:

Anne Heche as Catherine

Jeremy Sisto simply because Hal

Robert Foxworth while Robert

Kaitlin Hopkins mainly because Claire

Directed by Jenny Sullivan. Recorded before a live target audience in the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.

Proof is a part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series offering science-themed plays. Main funding for the Relativity Series is certainly supplied by the Alfred P. Sloan Basis to enhance open public understanding of science and technology in the modern world.