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Family drama, by the numbers.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 31-JAN-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Family drama, by the numbers.(Arts and Literature)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Bob Keefer The Register-Guard

Pat Patton is not a mathematical kind of guy.

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival veteran - he spent 32 seasons there as an actor, a director and as associate director of the festival - especially hated story problems: "John is driving 32 miles per hour toward Chicago and has three oranges in the back seat ..."

Now he's found a story problem to his liking: "Proof," David Auburn's tightly written little drama of mathematics and madness, which Patton is directing for Willamette Repertory Theatre.

"I have trouble with story problems - always did," Patton said. "This is kind of a mathematical story problem about relationships. And a problem of trust and love. This is the kind of story problem I love."

"Proof," which...

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