A Disappearing Number
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jul 15, 2010
Closed Jul 18, 2010

Playing at
Lincoln Center- David H. Koch Theater

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

Inspired by the true story of the unusual friendship between two of the 20th century's most remarkable pure mathematicians--Cambridge University don G.H. (Godfrey Harold) Hardy and Srinivasa Ramanujan, a young Brahmin genius--A Disappearing Number interweaves their tale with a fictional contemporary love story between a present-day university lecturer and her American-Asian partner.

Past, present, and future occur simultaneously onstage as A Disappearing Number explores such themes as the beauty of science, our quest for meaning and knowledge, who we are and how we connect to one another--and ultimately, what is permanent and what disappears forever.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:

Lincoln Center- David H. Koch Theater
Lincoln Center Plaza
New York, NY 10023

WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

To make a longish story short, A Disappearing Number, which is being presented for a short run by the Lincoln Center Festival 2010 and the David H. Koch Theater, is a thrilling, thrilling, thrilling play -- perhaps a surprising statement for a work about mathematics, a subject that can instantly make eyes around the globe glaze over.

Created by Simon McBurney and his company Complicite, the admittedly challenging opus is specifically concerned with pure math -- the strictly cerebral kind distinct from more or less everyday applied math. The intermissionless 110-minute work even begins with a woman called Ruth Minnen (a giggling, committed Saskia Reeves) delivering -- with delight she onl[...]

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Reviewed by David Finkle on Jul 16, 2010