Complicite: A Disappearing Number
5 September 2007 – 6 October 2007 / 19:45, 19:00, 14:30 at the Barbican Theatre

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Part of 25th landmark events

Staged with Complicite’s characteristic elegance and startling visual originality, A Disappearing Number takes as its starting point one of the most mysterious and romantic mathematical collaborations of all time.

This is a story about connections between ideas, cultures and times. In London a man attempts to unravel the secrets of his lover. In Bangalore a woman collapses on a train. In Cambridge in 1914 Englishman GH Hardy seeks to comprehend the ideas of the Indian prodigy Srinivasa Ramanujan.

Simultaneously a narrative and an investigation, A Disappearing Number weaves a provocative theatrical pattern about our relentless compulsion to understand.

> Conceived and directed by Simon McBurney
> Devised by the Company
> Original music by Nitin Sawhney
> Design by Michael Levine
> Co-produced by Complicite, barbicanbite07, Wiener Festwochen, Holland Festival, Ruhrfestspiele, in association with Theatre Royal Plymouth
> Supported by Arts Council England

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