A Disappearing Number by Simon McBurney

The cast includes: David Annen; Firdous Bamji; Paul Bhattacharjee; Hiren Chate; Saraj Chaudhry; Divya Kasturi; Chetna Pandya; Saskia Reeves and Shane Shambhu.

Conceived and Directed by Simon McBurney
Devised by the Company
Original Music Nitin Sawhney
Design Michael Levine

Seen at the erstwhile London home of Complicite - The Barbican Theatre - E8
Saw Simon himself wandering around pre-show but nobody else caught my eye

I wouldn't usually list a load or reviews but this is a complicated piece and it's good to see the critics point of view. In a staging that felt like a cross between Robert Lepage and Katie Mitchell. So hard to describe and do justice.

Jasper Rees - The Sunday Times, 2 September 2008 For Simon McBurney, Complicite`s artistic director, this is more than just a tale of two boffins. read article

Nikita Lalwani - New Statesman, 23 August 2007 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. read article

Brian Logan - The Times, 20 August 2007 This is very much Complicite territory: echoes through time, connections across worlds. In McBurney`s hands, mathematical sequences become journeys through life, and numerology a means of giving substance to the unknowable. read article

Sarah Hemming - Financial Times, 28 July 2007 One morning in 1913 the Cambridge mathematician G.H. Hardy opened an unexpected letter from India. It was crammed with wild mathematical theorems... read article

Michael Billington - Guardian, 12th September 2007 Maths, mysticism and mortality combine in Complicite's latest mind-expanding show conceived and directed by Simon McBurney.... read article