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Complicite's 'A Disappearing Number' - limited season only at the Novello Theatre

Complicite's
A DISAPPEARING NUMBER
Novello Theatre, Aldwych, London, WC2B 4LD

19 performances only from 10-25 September 2010
Press performance: Tuesday 14 September 2010, 7:30pm


This September, Complicite's multi-award winning production of A Disappearing Number will return to London for a limited season at the Novello Theatre (10-25 September - press night: Tuesday 14 September, 7:30pm).

This highly anticipated return to the capital will reunite the original cast of Simon McBurney's acclaimed production for 19 performances in the West End.

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 collaborations of all time. In London a man attempts to unravel the secrets of his lover. In Bangalore a woman collapses on a train. In 1914 Englishman GH Hardy, Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, seeks to comprehend the ideas of the Indian prodigy, Srinivasa Ramanujan. A Disappearing Number weaves a provocative theatrical pattern about our relentless compulsion to understand.

A Disappearing Number has received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play (2008), the Evening Standard Award for Best Play and Critics' Circle Award for Best New Play (2007).

Upcoming Complicite highlights this Autumn include: a live broadcast of A Disappearing Number on 14 October from Theatre Royal Plymouth to cinemas around the world to launch the second season of the National Theatre's NT Live; the acclaimed production, Shun-kin, will return to the Barbican (4-13 Nov 2010) and Simon McBurney will direct Raskatov's A Dog's Heart at ENO (20 Nov - 4 Dec 2010).

A Disappearing Number was conceived and directed by Simon McBurney, and devised by the company, who are: David Annen, Firdous Bamji, Paul Bhattacharjee, Hiren Chate, Divya Kasturi, Chetna Pandya, Saskia Reeves and Shane Shambhu. The production features original music by Nitin Sawhney, design by Michael Levine, lighting by Paul Anderson, sound by Christopher Shutt, projection by Sven Ortel and costume by Christina Cunningham.

The production opened at the Theatre Royal Plymouth in March 2007 and subsequently toured to Warwick Arts Centre, Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen in Germany, Wiener Festwochen, Holland Festival in Amsterdam and the Barbican. In 2008 it was revived and toured to Barcelona, Ann Arbor, Paris, Milan, Sydney, and a second sell-out London season. It arrives in London straight after its New York debut at the Lincoln Center and performances at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Mumbai and the International Congress of Mathematicians in Hyderabad, India.

A Disappearing Number is co-produced by Complicite, barbicanbite07, Ruhrfestspiele, Wiener Festwochen, Holland Festival, in association with Theatre Royal Plymouth. Complicite is funded by Arts Council England and supported by the British Council.

Public booking opens Wednesday 28 July. Please visit this website tomorrow to book.

Date: 27/7/2010

Prince of Wales Theatre at night

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