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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.
Cast (in alphabetical order) Production Team for Stage G.H. Hardy DAVID ANNEN Associate Director DOUGLAS RINTOUL Al Cooper FIRDOUS BAMJI Producer JUDITH DIMANT Aninda Rao PAUL BHATTACHARJEE Production Coordinator ANITA ASHWICK Tabla Player HIREN CHATE Revival Lights & Technical Management MATT HASKINS Mother/University Cleaner/Dancer DIVYA KASTURI Company Stage Manager CATH BINKS Surita Bhogaita/Barbara Jones CHETNA PANDYA Technical Stage Manager ROD WILSON Ruth Minnen SASKIA REEVES Stage Managers EMMA CAMERON, IAN ANDLAW Srinivasa Ramanujan/Dancer SHANE SHAMBHU Lighting Operator RICHARD GODIN Sound Operator HELEN ATKINSON Conceived and Directed by Simon McBurney Projection Operator MARTIN DEWAR Devised by The Company Rigging and Automation NICK CAMPBELL for Principal Projects Original Music Nitin Sawhney Rigging TONY HARVEY Design Michael Levine Automation Technician NIGEL SHILTON Lighting Paul Anderson Video Programmer SAM HUNT Sound Christopher Shutt Wardrobe Mistress DONNA RICHARDS Projection Sven Ortel Production Carpenter THOMAS PATTULLO Costume Christina Cunningham Mic Runner MARCIA ROACH Photography SARAH AINSLIE, STEPHANIE BERGER, JORIS-JAN A Disappearing Number premiered in 2007 and subsequently BOS, SUMIRON GHOSH, ROBBIE JACK toured all over the world, winning the Evening Standard Theatre Artistic Collaborator VICTORIA GOULD Award for Best Play (2007), The Critics’ Circle Theatre Award Associate Sound KAY BASSON for Best New Play (2007) and the Laurence Olivier Award for Associate Projection FINN ROSS Best New Play (2008). Maths Consultant MARCUS DU SAUTOY
Complicite is an internationally acclaimed theatre company For National Theatre Live Broadcast based in London. Led by Simon McBurney the Company has won Executive Producer Nicholas Hytner over 50 major awards worldwide. Further information about the Producer david sabel company can be found at complicite.org Director for Screen NICK WICKHAM Technical Producer CHRISTOPHER BRETNALL Theatre Royal Plymouth is the largest and best attended regional Technical International Distribution Robert Borchard-Young producing theatre in the UK and the leading promoter of theatre International Marketing and Distribution in the South West. There are two distinctive performance spaces, Julie Borchard-Young for BY Experience, Inc. the Theatre Royal and the Drum Theatre as well as TR2, the Associate Producer EMMA KEITH award-winning theatre production and creative learning centre. Broadcast Lighting Director BERNIE DAVIS Broadcast Sound Supervisor CONRAD FLETCHER A Complicite co-production with the Barbican, London, Ruhrfestspiele, Wiener Broadcast Production Manager HARRY GUTHRIE Festwochen, Holland Festival, in association with Theatre Royal Plymouth.
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