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A Prelude Dinner precedes this performance.
Students: The Thursday performance is an Arts & Eats event.
A Disappearing Number
Complicite
Conceived and Directed by Simon McBurney
Wednesday, September 10, 8 pm
Thursday, September 11, 8 pm
Friday, September 12, 8 pm
Saturday, September 13, 2 pm & 8 pm
Sunday, September 14, 2 pm
Power Center
| Fri, Sat Eve, Sun-MF | $60·$54·$36·$30 |
| Fri, Sat Eve, Sun-Balc | $54·$44·$36·$20 |
| Wed, Thu, Sat Mat-MF | $50·$44·$32·$26 |
| Wed, Thu, Sat Mat-Balc | $44·$40·$32·$18 |
Following its triumphant production of The Elephant Vanishes in 2004, the theater company Complicite (pronounced kum-PLIH-si-tay) returns to Ann Arbor for the exclusive US presentation of its award-winning hit, A Disappearing Number.
In the chilly English surroundings of Cambridge on the cusp of the First World War, the English mathematician GH Hardy unexpectedly receives a letter filled with mathematical theorems from a young Indian visionary, Srinivasa Ramanujan, whose idiosyncratic and creative approach to mathematics ultimately led to some of the most complex and beautiful mathematical patterns of all time.
Complicite’s innovative, multimedia approach frames past, present, and future simultaneously, with the Hardy/Ramanujan collaboration serving not only as a central aspect of the narrative, but more so as a window into a larger world of ideas: about the awesomeness of infinity and its relationship to human mortality, about the beauty of science and our quest for meaning and knowledge, about who we are and how we connect to one another — and ultimately about what is permanent and what disappears forever.
“With touching emotion and unnerving disquietude, A Disappearing Number forces the spectator to consider the facts of love, death, and belonging, within the space of his or her own personal universe.” (New Statesman)
Contains strong language. Two hours, no intermission.
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This production is sponsored by Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation. |