NOVELLO THEATRE
Aldwych, London, WC2B 4LD
A DISAPPEARING NUMBER
"People like us who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. "
Einstein
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We are all looking. The question is who can see.
A Disappearing Number takes as its starting point the story of the most mysterious and romantic mathematical collaborations of all time.
Simultaneously a narrative and an enquiry, the production crosses three continents and several histories, to weave a provocative theatrical pattern about our relentless compulsion to understand.
Threaded through this pattern of stories and ideas are questions. About mathematics and beauty; imagination and the nature of infinity; about what is continuous and what permanent; how we are attached to the past and how we affect the future; how we create and how we love.
A man mourns the loss of his lover, a mathematician mourns her own fate. A businessman travels from Los Angeles to Chennai pursuing the future; a physicist in CERN looks for it too. The mathematician GHHardy seeks to comprehend the ideas of the genius Srinivasa Ramanujan in the chilly English surroundings of Cambridge during the First World War. Ramanujan looks to create some of the most complex mathematical patterns of all time.
This revival of A Disappearing Number reunites the show’s original cast.
Dates
Previews from 10th September 2010
Opening night 14th September 2010
Closes 25th September 2010
Audience: A Disappearing Number is suitable for audiences aged 12 and upwards
Run time:One hour and 55 minutes with one 15 minute interval
Show Times
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | |
| Matinee | - | - | 2:30 | - | - | 2:30 | - |
| Evening | 7:30 | 7:30 | 7:30 | 7:30 | 7:30 | 7:30 | - |
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