News on your favorite shows, specials & more!

Underground Railway Theater to Present Complicite's A DISAPPEARING NUMBER, 10/20

By: Oct. 13, 2014
Enter Your Email to Unlock This Article

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe.




Existing user? Just click login.

Underground Railway Theater will present A Disappearing Number by Complicite, conceived and originally directed by Simon McBurney, devised by the original company. Elaine Vaan Hogue directs Underground Railway Theater's production. A Disappearing Number is part of the 10th Anniversary of Catalyst Collaborative@MIT, a science-theatre collaboration between Central Square Theater and MIT. The press performance is Monday, October 20 at 7:30PM.

In 1913 a clerk in rural India, Ramanujan, sends a letter to the renowned Cambridge mathematician, G.H. Hardy, containing an extraordinary series of theorems. What ensues is a legendary, intellectually passionate, seven-year collaboration. Interwoven with the present-day story of Ruth, a British math professor, and her husband, an Indian-American businessman. Drama, comedy, Indian dance and music weave an immersive experience the New York Times called "mesmerizing", a love-story that combines clashes of culture and , the sensuality of ideas while illuminating the mystery of mathematics. A Disappearing Number received the 2007 Olivier, Evening Standard, and Critic's Circle Theatre Awards for Best New Play. A Disappearing Number is partly inspired by G. H. Hardy's book A Mathematician's Apology.

Tickets for A Disappearing Number start at $15 and are currently on sale at CentralSquareTheater.org or by calling 866.811.4111.

Comments

To post a comment, you must register and login.

Videos