Simon Mc Burney
Simon McBurney/Complicite
A Disappearing Number
Archive 2008
Nanterre-Amandiers – Centre dramatique national
septembersept 27 - october – oct 27
septembersept 27 - october – oct 27
© © Jack Robbie ©
Video : www.complicite.org/index_edu.html
A Disappearing Number
Conception and direction, Simon McBurney
Created by the Company
Original score, Nitin Sawhney
Scenography, Michael Levine
Lighting, Paul Anderson
Sound, Christopher Shutt
Video, Sven Ortel pour Mesmer
Costumes, Christina Cunningham
Casting ongoing
A coproduction by Complicite ; Barbican bite07 ; Wiener Festwochen ; Holland Festival ; Ruhrfestspiele
in association with the Royal Plymouth Theatre .
Co-realized by the Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers ; Festival d’Automne à Paris
This show won a 2008 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play
With the support of British Council and the Onda
A show presented within the context of the European Cultural Season in France (1st of July-31st of December 2008)
A Disappearing Number
Conception and direction, Simon McBurney
Created by the Company
Original score, Nitin Sawhney
Scenography, Michael Levine
Lighting, Paul Anderson
Sound, Christopher Shutt
Video, Sven Ortel pour Mesmer
Costumes, Christina Cunningham
Casting ongoing
A coproduction by Complicite ; Barbican bite07 ; Wiener Festwochen ; Holland Festival ; Ruhrfestspiele
in association with the Royal Plymouth Theatre .
Co-realized by the Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers ; Festival d’Automne à Paris
This show won a 2008 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play
With the support of British Council and the Onda
A show presented within the context of the European Cultural Season in France (1st of July-31st of December 2008)
A play about mathematics sounds far from riveting but McBurney and his company Complicite pull-off this tour de force. The figure of an Indian man - who made headlines because of his uncanny ability to resolve the most complex equations - inspires an exploration of how the obsession with knowledge, the pursuit of infinity, is also a quest for happiness.