NT Live: A Disappearing Number

For the first time, National Theatre Live is broadcast from Theatre Royal, Plymouth.

Complicite’s A Disappearing Number opened in Plymouth in 2007 before visiting Warwick Arts Centre and subsequently touring all over the world. Awards include the Olivier Award for Best New Play (2008), the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play (2007) and the Critics’ Circle Theatre Award for Best New Play (2007).

A Disappearing Number weaves together the story of two love affairs, separated by a century and a continent. The first happens now. The second is set in 1914. It tells of the heartbreaking collaboration between the greatest natural mathematician of the 20th century, Srinivasa Ramanujan, a penniless Brahmin from Madras in South India, and his British counterpart, the brilliant Cambridge don GH Hardy.

With a haunting original score by Nitin Sawhney, this piece of startling visual poetry from Simon McBurney and Complicite is a compelling meditation on love, mathematics and the pain of exile in an age when we think we can belong anywhere and have everything.

“A Disappearing Number is a wonder and one I cannot recommend too highly.” The Daily Telegraph

Complicite is one of the UK’s most outstanding theatre companies and becomes the first company outside of the National Theatre to be a part of the National Theatre Live season.

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