Welcome to Lincoln Center Festival 2010. We Have Searched the World to Bring You Some of the Best the Performing Arts Have to Offer

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Welcome to Lincoln Center Festival 2010. We have searched the world to bring you some of the best the performing arts have to offer. Over the 18 days of this month’s Festival, we present 45 performances by artists and ensembles from 12 countries, and expand our venues to include a new site on Governors Island.

Simon McBurney’s theater company, Complicite, It is always a pleasure to present innovative returns for its fourth Festival appearance. Known work from the world of dance, and wonderful to for pioneering works, their newest endeavor, welcome back the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane A Disappearing Number , embraces the universal Dance Company. Bill has never been one to shy relevance of math and the link between two away from difficult subjects, and his Fondly Do very different people—a Cambridge professor We Hope… Fervently Do We Pray is an inspiring and a young clerk from Madras who is either a and emotionally wrenching work. Dancer and genius or completely mad. choreographer Saburo Teshigawara, who made his Lincoln Center Festival debut in 2006, brought Two dynamic directors give new life to classics back his laser-like focus for the compelling one- from literature and film at our newest perfor - man tour-de-force Miroku , and Pichet Klunchun mance venue. An industrial warehouse on brings his brilliant company from Bangkok for Governors Island is the dramatic backdrop for Chui Chai . The title, meaning “transformation,” the North American premieres of Peter Stein’s is as much a metaphor for Pichet’s own mod - marathon adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s novel ernization of Thai classical dance as it is a The Demons and Toneelgroep Amster-dam’s description of the Ramayana, an Indian epic on Teorema , based on the film by Pier Paolo which it is based. Pasolini and directed by Ivo van Hove. Georgian writer, director, and master puppeteer If we had a musical survivors series, it would Rezo Gabriadze returns with an encore of his undoubtedly include three groups making elegant and elegiac The Battle of Stalingrad . Festival debuts this month: The Blind Boys of Puppet theater for adults, it mixes humor and Alabama, Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou, heartbreak to tell the story of one of the most and Emir Kusturica and the No Smoking devastating battles of World War II. Orchestra. The Blind Boys have inspired musi - cians and music lovers of all tastes for decades, We take an unprecedented look at the complete and over three nights we are celebrating their work of 20th-century musical maverick Edgard contribution to the American music scene. Varèse with a two-night retrospective. A true Benin’s Orchestre Poly-Rythmo and Sarajevo’s pioneer, Varèse longed to “liberate sound” to No Smoking Orchestra are hugely successful in reflect in music the immense technological their homelands but have only recently burst changes of the last century, and the forces of onto the international scene. Both made their the New York Philharmonic, International Con- U.S. debuts at the Festival. temporary Ensemble, S o¯ Percussion, Musica Sacra, and the Oratorio Society reveal his suc - cess . With the Festival debut of Germany’s Wuppertal Opera and the North American pre - miere of Salvatore Sciarrino’s La porta della legge , we continue to celebrate composers who break with convention. A master of harmonics and structure, Sciarrino challenges all pre-con - ceived notions of what opera can be.

I am pleased that you are joining us and hope that you will visit often throughout the month.

Nigel Redden A scene from A Disappearing Number Director

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Complicite A Disappearing Number Conceived and directed by Simon McBurney Devised by the Company

NEW YORK PREMIERE

Director Simon McBurney July 15 –18 Original Music Nitin Sawhney DAVID H. KOCH THEATER Design Michael Levine There will be no intermission Lighting Paul Anderson Sound Christopher Shutt Projection Sven Ortel Costumes Christina Cunningham

Major support for the Lincoln Center Festival presentation of A Disappearing Number is provided by Jennie and Richard DeScherer.

Support provided by Isilon Systems.

Lincoln Center Festival 2010 is made possible in part with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

This performance is made possible in part by the Josie Robertson Fund for Lincoln Center.

A Disappearing Number is a co-production of Complicite, barbicanbite07, Ruhrfestspiele, Wiener Festwochen, and Holland Festival, in association with Theatre Royal Plymouth.

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Cast

G.H. Hardy David Annen Al Cooper Firdous Bamji Aninda Rao Paul Bhattacharjee Tabla player Hiren Chate Mother/University Cleaner/Dancer Divya Kasturi Surita Bhogaita/Barbara Jones Chetna Pandya Ruth Minnen Saskia Reeves Srinivasa Ramanujan/Dancer Shane Shambhu

Other parts played by members of the company

Associate Director Douglas Rintoul Production Manager Jamie Maisey Company Stage Manager Cath Binks Technical Stage Manager Rod Wilson Stage Managers Emma Cameron , Ian Andlaw Relights Matt Haskins Lighting Operator Richard Godin Sound Operator Helen Atkinson Projection Operator Martin Dewar Rigging and Automation Nick Campbell for Principal Projects Automation Technician Nigel Shilton Wardrobe Mistress Donna Richards Production Photography Joris-Jan Bos , Robbie Jack Producer Judith Dimant

Literary Associate Ben Power Artistic Collaborator Victoria Gould Associate Director, Original Production Catherine Alexander Associate Sound Kay Basson Associate Projection Finn Ross Math Consultant Marcus du Sautoy

A Disappearing Number is in part inspired by G.H. Hardy’s A Mathematician’s Apology with forward by C.P. Snow. Complicite would like to thank Cambridge University Press for granting permission to use material from these texts in the production.

A Disappearing Number received its world premiere at the Theatre Royal Plymouth in March 2007 and toured to Warwick Arts Centre, Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen in Germany, Wiener Festwochen, Amsterdam’s Holland Festival, and to the Barbican, London. In 2008 it was revived and toured to Barcelona, Ann Arbor, Paris, Milan, Sydney, and again to London. It was awarded the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play (2007), The Critics’ Circle Theatre Award for Best New Play (2007) and the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play (2008). Following its New York performances, A Disappearing Number will tour to the NCPA, Mumbai, the International Congress of Mathematicians in Hyderabad, and Zagreb International Theatre Festival. 07-15 Disappearing:Gp 3.qxt 7/7/10 12:55 PM Page 4

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A Most Romantic the concept of infinity? What does it mean to say there are many different types of infinity? Collaboration Why are the primes fundamental, yet so In January 1913, the Cambridge mathe - deeply mysterious to mathematicians? What matician Godfrey Harold Hardy received a constitutes a mathematical pattern against strange letter in the morning post. It con - the chaos that pervades so much of the tained wild, fantastic theorems about prime physical world? What is mathematical proof? numbers, one of the great mysteries of mathematics. Hardy nearly threw the letter This last concept of proof is especially in the trash —math attracts its fair share of relevant to the relationship between the cranks —but by the evening, the theorems two mathematicians. Hardy persuaded were beginning to work their magic. Hardy Ramanujan to break with his Brahmin could see that the letter was the work of a beliefs, which forbade travel across the genius. What was even more intriguing seas, and to join him in Cambridge. Together was that it had come from the other side of they journeyed like Edmund Hilary and Tenzing the world. The author was a 26-year-old Norgay across the mathematical wilds. It was clerk earning 20 rupees a month in the not an easy collaboration, however. While Madras Port Authority, India. His name was Hardy insisted on the rigors of western Srinivasa Ramanujan. ideas of proof, Ramanujan’s theorems were spilling from his mind thanks, he claimed, to There was one formula in particular that the inspiration of his goddess Namagiri. struck a chord with Hardy. To the uninitiated it seemed to make no sense at all: Ramanujan relied on an extraordinary math - ematical intuition to make connections 1 1+2+3+4+5+... = - /12 between seemingly unrelated ideas. Hardy noted, “It seemed ridiculous to worry him Indeed, Ramanujan had already sent his letter about how he had found this or that known to a number of mathematicians, who had theorem, when he was showing me half a rejected the Indian’s ideas as the work of a dozen new ones almost every day.” It was madman. But it was this very formula that often up to Hardy to supply the rigorous provided Hardy with his first inkling that proofs that would be expected by the west - Ramanujan was far from a crank. Hardy knew ern journals to which they submitted their that there were sophisticated mathematical papers. It was a real culture clash, like trying techniques developed in Germany that had to marry the traditions of western classical once made sense of these infinite sums, but music with the ragas and talas of India. they were not ideas that had spread widely. Hardy realized that Ramanujan must have This tension between east and west is one single-handedly reconstructed them. that runs throughout much of mathematical history. For many like Hardy, mathematics It is this same formula that has provided a was regarded as a European endeavor dating catalyst for Complicite’s investigation of back to the traditions of Ancient Greece. Ramanujan’s relationship with Hardy and, The influence of other cultures has received more generally, the company’s exploration little recognition. But many of the great of the mathematical world. What is the mathematical ideas, such as the concept of mysterious journey behind adding up all zero and the potency of infinite sums, have the whole numbers and getting the answer their origins in India. This confrontation is at 1 minus /12 ? How does one make sense of the heart of Complicite’s production. 07-15 Disappearing:Gp 3.qxt 7/7/10 12:55 PM Page 5

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Ramanujan returned to India after the end Note from the Director of World War I. Tragically he died shortly after his arrival from a parasitic infection of the I look out of the window into the dark. I am liver. Hardy was devastated. He regarded their flying to Chennai, Madras. Below me is collaboration as the one romantic incident of darkness, too. I wonder if it is desert, and his life. But perhaps more remarkable was realize I have no idea of where we are. I the mathematics contained in the last letter sometimes like the way flying anesthetizes that Ramanujan sent to Hardy in 1920. all sense of place. No once can contact you, you do not belong in the air, and It was full of talk of a new mathematical idea strangely you sense you do not belong any - he called a mock theta function and it was where. As a result, flying is a time of way ahead of its time. Only in the past few remembering and imagining. So I lean back years has a full understanding of Ramanujan’s and wonder where to begin this show. functions become clear; Kathrin Bringmann Where do I start? When Ramanujan wrote and Ken Ono of the University of Wisconsin to Hardy from Madras in 1913 he was for - have given the first complete explanation of bidden to make the journey I am making the ideas contained in that last letter. now. His Brahmin caste wouldn’t allow it. And so, the story goes, he went to the It is striking in a world dominated by men great temple at Namakkal, south of his that a woman has been a key character in hometown of Kumbakonam, and waited illuminating Ramanujan’s work. Complicite’s for a sign. The story is nothing without the production also places a woman at the cen - mathematical ideas, I’m thinking, and I am ter of its fascinating mathematical story. no mathematician. “Mathematicians are only makers of patterns, like poets or But the mock theta function is not the only painters,” said Hardy in A Mathematician’s idea to live on long after Ramanujan’s death. Apology . So perhaps I should simply make His work on modular forms, for example, has a set of patterns. But even a mathemati - become key to making sense of string the - cian’s patterns are made of ideas and so ory, currently being proposed by physicists to far I have none. explain the universe. As Hardy once wrote, “Immortality may be a silly word, but proba - I know that many artists work in the dark, bly a mathematician has the best chance of not knowing where to begin until they do. whatever it may mean.” Ramanujan’s work There is always a leap into the unknown during the three decades he was alive seems not yet taken, and we wait for an idea to to straddle generations of mathematical come, for a sense of the structure of the ideas. His first letter to Hardy reconstructed story or drama, any sign would do, for the mathematics of 19th-century Germany. someone to tell you something. His last letter was the catalyst for ideas that still resonate today. Like two bookends, “There are countable infinities and these letters encompass three centuries of uncountable infinities,” said Marcus du modern mathematics. Sautoy, the mathematician who is collabo - — Marcus du Sautoy rating with us on this piece, and I thought Marcus du Sautoy is Simonyi Professor for the he was mocking me. Public Understanding of Science and professor “And some infinities are bigger than of mathematics at the University of Oxford. His others,” added Victoria Gould, our other book The Music of the Primes (HarperPerennial) mathematician who is also an actress. describes Ramanujan and Hardy’s impact on the story of prime numbers. What are you talking about? Surely that is 07-15 Disappearing:Gp 3.qxt 7/7/10 12:55 PM Page 6

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just an unproven idea. How can some Well maybe there is no square root of infinities be bigger than others? minus one. This absolutely infuriated math - They can. ematicians because without it there were I look at Marcus’ blue eyes and believe him equations they could not solve. So one day as he begins to show us how. some mathematician simply said, “Screw it. We need a square root of minus one, On hot summer evenings when I was about and if we imagine it, it will exist.” And so six, my parents would lay out an ancient they did. It was a leap of the imagination canvas groundsheet in the garden. My and they called it “i,” the imaginary number. brother, sister, and I would run to get our And this “leap” gave us complex numbers. sleeping bags, lie on our backs, and gaze up And without complex numbers, we would at the night sky waiting for sleep to come. not be able to describe electromagnetic The infinite became apparent in the stars. An behavior or create digital technology in the unknown at once alarming and comforting. way that we have. We would have no Alarming because there were no answers. radio, no television, nor the mobile phone Comforting because anything seemed pos - that you are holding in your hand. I look at sible in the mighty blackness. my mobile. A leap of the imagination.

Arriving at Chennai’s airport at 4 a.m., I was Waking in the garden, my heart would sink. still dreaming. Out through the mass of Time for school, where I would understand people, a man was waiting with a sign. “I nothing about math except that I got the am Ragu,” he said. We go to an old van. I wrong answer. Nothing to do with the sit up front as we chug out of town. People imagination. That would have to wait until wailing everywhere, carrying branches, art class. At no time did I make a connection food, water, and trays of tea, bicycles with between what I saw at night and the black - churns tied to the back, carts, motorcycles, board I would be staring at so soon. we drive round a cow and the holes. Flowers line the roadside like a sign saying, “This Ten hours later I wake in another country. way, please.” It goes on for miles, then a Gigantic red rocks dot the landscape. Palm straggling line of people, and finally a cart trees everywhere. We are in Trichy , a small being pushed. “Funeral,” says Ragu. On Indian town of some seven and a half million the cart, wrapped in white, lies a corpse. I inhabitants. I take a hotel room for a few look into its face as we pass. The flowers hours and sleep, then wake up when the were marking the way to another world. I others arrive, my designer Michael Levine slip into unconsciousness. and assistant producer Polly Stokes. We cram into an ancient four-wheel drive to get So the square root of four is two or minus to Namakkal before nightfall. We stop on the two. And the square root of two is banks of the Cauvery. We stand looking out irrational. Does that mean it is mad? No, at this “Ganges of the south.” Somewhere simply that you cannot express it as a there is supposed to be an underground fraction. The first 25 decimal places are link between the two rivers. All who bathe 1.4142135623730950488016887 … and here are cleansed of their sins. so it goes on, into infinity. But what is the square root of minus one? Two men are slowly making their way to “Minus one,” someone tentatively suggests. the water. They lay out their washing things Minus one times minus one is plus one. on the stones beside the river : soap, leaves, Ah yes. a clean dhoti. With three deft movements 07-15 Disappearing:Gp 3.qxt 7/7/10 12:55 PM Page 7

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they change their dhotis with their backs to The heat is stifling. Perhaps hotter than us, then stand one foot in, one out of the outside where it is still 95 degrees through water and wash the other cloth in the river. night. The chanting becomes more intense, Having wrung them out, they leisurely and my eyes fall on the carvings of Vishnu swing them across the rocks lining the on the walls. In one, he has taken his multi- bank. Then they both slowly, very slowly, armed form and is ripping open the stomach slide in the water and immerse themselves of a prone woman. A child pats her leg and up to their necks. smiles at me as he pops something into his mouth. I smile back and wander out into the When we enter Namakkal, all is dark, lit night. I find a corner of the temple where it only by candle and oil. is calm. Everything here is mysterious, but “A blackout,” says our driver. not mystical. The mysterious is part of the The name Namakkal derives from everyday. The unknown feels familiar. Namagiri, which is the name of the single rock formation at the center of the town. It My hands touch the rock. I put my back is enormous, of granite, 200 feet high and against it, squat, and feel reassured. I have more than half a mile in circumference. been traveling for nearly 30 hours. I gaze up Over it is a fort. It is called Tippu Sultan’s at the night sky. No answer comes to me, and we slip in past three kneeling women no vision, no sign. But it is warm. And I feel on the steps, our hands sliding over the more at home than I have done for ages. carvings of the thick wooden door, leave Suddenly it seems clear that it is here our shoes at the entrance, and walk inside. where Ramanujan should have found the A wide, open space, there are pillars and courage to look beyond the strictures of rectangular temples. The residual heat Brahmin law—knowing he would suffer from the day warms our palms as we press total rejection from his caste, friends, them against the walls. It creeps up from neighbors, family—and decide to travel to the rough stone ground under our soles. England. Here where the unknown is so recognizable. And all he did was wait. For Here Ramanujan slept for three days and the courage to emerge out of the warm nights in 1913. “Normally all leave at dusk, rock. So I look at the stars and wait. but he was allowed to sleep here,” said our guide. I try to see him there in the soft dark. “Where did it all begin? How big is it? The air here embraces you like a blanket. Surely it must have an end, an edge?” I would ask my brother, leaning over as We turn into the temple. We walk up I was going to sleep, so he would talk beside a sacred walkway. Suddenly there and I could drift away on the back of his are priests. We are given water, a mark is voice. “So what was there before the pressed onto our foreheads, and a bell-like beginning?” I ask. object briefly placed on our heads. There “What? When did it all really begin?” are flowers floating in wooden bowls of My brother sighs. He is only nine, but water, and somewhere, someone is he sighs. singing softly. The air is heavy with I roll on my back and wait for the answer. I incense. A bell rings, people talk, children gaze at the stars. And wait. And the black are playing. A priest is eating his dinner between the stars. And wait. while another prays. —Simon McBurney , 2007 07-15 Disappearing:Gp 3.qxt 7/7/10 12:55 PM Page 8

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About the Artists The Elephant Vanishes , Strange Poetry , Light , The Noise of Time , Mnemonic Simon McBurney (Director) is a multi -Tony (Drama Desk and Lucille Lortell Awards), nominated and Olivier Award –winning actor, and The Chairs . He also worked on Simon writer , and director. New York audiences McBurney’s All My Sons (Broadway), The will be most familiar with his company Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (National Complicite’s productions The Elephant Actors Theater), and Lenny Henry’s So Vanishes (Lincoln Center Festival 2004), Much Things to Say (London West End and Mnemonic (Off -Broadway 2002 and recipi - international tour). Other theater includes ent of the Critics Circle Awards), The Noise Arcadia (West End); Victoria Wood’s Talent of Time (with Emerson String Quartet, (Menier Chocolate Factory); Treasure Island , Lincoln Center 2000 –01), The Chairs (West End); A Little Shop of Horrors (West (Broadway 1998, recipient of six Tony Award End); Julius Caesar (RSC); The Tempest and Nominations), The Street of Crocodiles A Servant to Two Masters (RSC and West (Lincoln Center Festival 1998), and The End); Underneath the Lintel (West End); The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol (Lincoln Center Play’s the Thing (Channel 4 and West End); Festival 1996). Other New York presentations Terry Pratchett’s Nation , Revengers Tragedy , include All My Sons (Broadway 2008 –09 Stuff Happens , A Funny Thing Happened with John Lithgow and Dianne Wiest) and on the Way to the Forum , Cyrano de The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (National Bergerac , and The Birds (National Theatre). Actors Theater 200 2). Most recently he has collaborated with the Russian composer Ian Andlaw (Stage Manager) graduated Alexander Raskatov on a new opera, an from the Central School of Speech and adaptation of Bulgakov’s novella, A Dog’s Drama in 2007. His work for Complicite Heart . Having opened at the Dutch National includes Endgame and Shun-kin . Other the - Opera in June, it will play in London at the ater work includes deputy stage manager English National Opera later this year. As for Eliogabalo (Grange Park Opera) and War an actor he also performs extensively in and Peace (Shared Experience), company feature films, most recently Jane Eyre (in stage manager for Blind Date (Tête à Tête), production), Robin Hood , Harry Potter , Body stage manager for Cabaret Simon (Lone of Lies , The Duchess , The Last King of Twin/Barbican), and assistant stage manager Scotland , Friends with Money , and The for Sweet Nothings (Young Vic). Golden Compass . For Complicite/Nimax he recently starred in and directed Endgame David Annen ’s (G.H. Hardy) recent theater in London’s West End. He is the recipient includes Measure For Measure and of the 2008 Berlin Academy of Arts Konrad Judgment Day (Almeida); Chains of Dew Wolf Prize for outstanding multi-disciplinary (Orange Tree); Henry VIII (RSC); Copenhagen artists and was the first non-Japanese (Watermill); Guantanamo (Tricycle and New director to receive the Yomiuri Theatre Ambassadors); After Mrs . Rochester (Shared Awards Grand Prize for Shun-kin (Complicite/ Experience); Ariadne Sells Out (Birmingham Setagaya Public Theatre, Tokyo), which will Opera); A Doll’s House (Lyric, Belfast); Into be on tour in late 2010. The West (New Victory, New York); The Winter’s Tale and The Tempest (AandBC); Paul Anderson ’s (Lighting Designer) work and Andorra and Demons and Dybbuks for Complicite includes A Dog’s Heart (De (Young Vic). Recent film and television Nederlandse Opera), Endgame , Shun-kin , includes The West Wittering Affair , Midsomer Measure for Measure , A Minute Too Late , Murders , Lennon Naked , EastEnders , Law 07-15 Disappearing:Gp 3.qxt 7/7/10 12:55 PM Page 9

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and Order , The Last Days of Lehman Guantanamo (Tricycle Theatre); The Mayor Brothers , Criminal Justice , The Commander , of Zalamea (Liverpool Everyman); Hobson’s Malinowski , The Chatterley Affair , and Choice (Young Vic); The Malcontent , The Gideon’s Daughter . He is an associate Roman Actor , Edward III , and The Island artist with Lightwork, devising and per - Princess (RSC); Credible Witness (Royal forming in Here’s What I Did With My Body Court); Arabian Nights (Young Vic world One Day , Utter , and London/My Lover . tour); Seagull , Present Laughter , The Tempest , and A Perfect Ganesh (West Helen Atkinson (Sound Operator) has Yorkshire Playhouse); Indian Ink (Aldwych); worked as a sound technician for productions Blood and Iranian Nights (Royal Court); and including Macbeth and Troilus and Cressida Lalita’s Way , Mohair , and The Burrow (Cheek by Jowl); Convicts Opera (Out Of (Royal Court Young Writers Festival). Work Joint), The Observer , Gethsemane , The as assistant director includes Moon for the Walworth Farce , and Some Trace Of Her Misbegotten and Medea (Riverside Studios) (National Theatre); The Big Life , The Harder and television work includes Any Human They Come , and Pied Piper (Theatre Royal Heart , Britz , Waking the Dead , New Tricks , Stratford East); The Boyfriend and Lady be and Spooks . Film includes Casino Royale , Good (Regents Park Open Air Theatre). White Teeth , Dirty Pretty Things , Jinnah , and Wild West. Firdous Bamji ’s (Al Cooper) New York theater experience includes Homebody/Kabul (BAM Cath Binks (Company Stage Manager) and NYTW), Gum and Crocodiles in the studied modern languages at the University Potomac (The WPP Theatre), The Changeling of Exeter and trained at RADA. Her work and Measure for Measure (TFANA), and for Complicite includes Endgame , Shun-kin , SubUrbia (Lincoln Centre Theater). Regional Measure for Measure , A Minute Too Late , theater includes Dollhouse (Goodman The Elephant Vanishes , Strange Poetry , Theatre); Othello (Hartford Stage); Mary Light , The Chairs , The Caucasian Chalk Stuart (Huntington Theatre); Indian Ink (ACT); Circle , and The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol . As You Like It and Galileo (Center Stage); In She began her career at the Royal Court The Heart of America (Long Wharf Theatre); Theatre and subsequently worked with Opera The Lisbon Traviata (The Studio Theatre); Factory, Mecklenberg Opera, Women’s Richard II , Much Ado About Nothing , Playhouse Trust, Donmar Warehouse, Troilus and Cressida , and A Midsummer Young Vic, Shakespeare’s Globe, Michael Night’s Dream (The Shakespeare Theatre); White Productions, and Theatre Royal and Drinking in America , Burn This , Bent , Plymouth. She was resident company and Beirut (Trustus Theatre). Television stage manager at the Royal Court between includes Law and Order and Law and 1998 and 2002, and has since worked Order SUV . Film includes The War Within , there on A Number , Iron and Blood . Other Justice , Analyze That , The Sixth Sense , work includes A Voyage Round My Father Unbreakable , and Ashes . written by John Mortimer and directed by Thea Sharrock. Paul Bhattacharjee (Aninda Rao) has recently appeared in Arabian Nights (RSC) Emma Cameron (Deputy Stage Manager) and The Great Game (Tricycle Theatre). trained at Rose Bruford College. Her work Other credits include Playing With Fire for Complicite includes Shun-kin , Measure (National Theatre); Blood Wedding (Almeida); for Measure , and A Minute Too Late . Other Twelfth Night (Albery Theatre, U.S. tour); work includes The Wasteland (Wilton’s 07-15 Disappearing:Gp 3.qxt 7/7/10 12:55 PM Page 10

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Music Hall and international tour), Happy (Theatre Royal Bath); Titus Andronicus Days (National Theatre and international (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Misanthrope , tour), Mother Courage , The Rose Tattoo , Hurly Burly , and Prayers of Sherkin (Peter Hall and Connections 09 (National Theatre); Company); and Personals , The Boyfriend , Aunt Dan and Lemon , Drunk Enough To and Hey Mr. Producer (Lyceum Theatre). Say I Love You? , Woman and Scarecrow , and Motortown (Royal Court); Hamlet and Richard Godin (Lighting Operator ) trained The Taming of the Shrew (Theatre Royal at Central School of Speech and Drama and Plymouth/U.K. tour). has recently toured DV8 Physical Theatre’s To Be Straight with You to Europe and North Hiren Chate (Tabla player) has been a pro - America. Other touring credits include fessional tabla player and teacher for eight work with English Touring Opera. Recent years, performing both in India and in the lighting design includes Travels With My United Kingdom, where he now lives. He Aunt (Royal Theatre, Northampton); Under learned to play the tabla from his father, Milk Wood (The Mercury Theatre); Twelfth Raghunath Chate, Shri Divyang Vakil, Pt Night and From a Jack to a King (The Sudhir Kumar Saxena, and Pt Yogesh Samsi. Queens Theatre); Speakout (English He has performed and held workshops with Touring Opera); Henry V (Chichester organizations including Milapfest and Asian Festival Theatre ); and OneFourSeven Music Circuit, and performed at events such (Birmingham Rep/Bristol Old Vic). He has as Sangeet Sabha in Leicester, BBC Proms been head of lighting, sound and video for at the Roundhouse, and the Elton John The National Youth Theatre . AIDS Foundation. He worked with Nitin Sawhney on the film A Throw of Dice and Matt Haskins (Relights) studied lighting with award-winning composer Niraj Chag. design at Rose Bruford College. Theater lighting design credits include Six Characters Christina Cunningham ’s (Costume In Search of An Author (Guildhall School of Designer) work for Complicite includes Music and Drama); Girls Night Out , Peppa A Dog’s Heart (De Nederlandse Opera) , Pig (U.K. Tours); Glass Mountain (Trestle Endgame , Shun-kin , Measure for Measure , Theatre); Blowing Whistles , and Hit Me! A Minute Too Late , Pet Shop Boys Meet (Leicester Square Theatre); Mud (Gate Eisenstein , Strange Poetry , The Elephant Theatre); The Pool (Arts Theatre); and Lovely Vanishes , The Noise of Time , Light , and Misfit (Trafalgar Studios). Opera lighting Mnemonic , and The Street of Crocodiles . design credits include La Cenerentola Other costume design includes Simon (Malmö Opera); Pelléas et Mélisande , The McBurney’s The Resistible Rise of Arturo Departure (Independent Opera at Sadlers Ui (National Actors Theater ); Just Add Wells); La fedeltà premiata (Royal Academy Water? (Shobana Jeyasingh Dance of Music); and Partenope and Les nuits d’été Company ); Just for Show (DV8); Americans (Les Azuriales Festival France). (Headlong Theatre); Prophet in Exile (Chelsea Centre); De Profundis and Just Divya Kasturi (Mother/University Cleaner/ Not Fair (National Theatre and Birmingham Dancer) is a multifaceted South Asian Rep); and Fire Raisers (Moving Theatre at dance practitioner with more than two the Riverside Studios). She has worked as decades of performing experience. Trained costume supervisor on Crown Matrimonial in the two styles of Bharatanatyam and (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre); Bash–Latterday Kathak, she is also a Carnatic vocalist. She Plays (Trafalgar Studios); Look Back In Anger has lent vocals for various albums and 07-15 Disappearing:Gp 3.qxt 7/7/10 12:55 PM Page 11

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films in India and has worked with Paul Jamie Maisey ’s (Production Manager) McCartney and Nitin Sawhney in the United work with Complicite includes production Kingdom. A qualified electronics engineer, carpenter on The Noise of Time . Other pro - Ms. Katsuri is pursuing her M.A. in South ductions include To Be Straight With You Asian dance studies at Roehampton and Just For Show (DV8 Physical Theatre); University. Her long stint in the Indian tele - Play On Earth (Station House Opera); The vision industry spans a range of skills Evocation of Papa Mas (Told By an Idiot); including English news reading, program and Ornamental Happiness (London Artist anchoring, conceptualizing, directing, and Project). Previously he was resident pro - presenting a dance learning series for chil - duction and technical manager at dren. As part of the Look East feature, she Glasgow’s Citizens’ Theatre. has also performed for the BBC. Sven Ortel (Projection) works internation - Michael Levine (Designer) is Canadian and ally designing projections for theater, opera, lives in Toronto. Work with Complicite dance, and musicals. His collaborators includes A Dog’s Heart (De Nederlandse include directors Matthias Hartman, Opera) , The Elephant Vanishes , and Jonathan Kent, Trevor Nunn, Deborah Mnemonic . He has worked internationally Warner, Gregory Boyd, choreographer as a set and costume designer for the past Helgi Tomasson, conductor Valery Gergiev, 28 years. He studied stage design at and set designer George Tsypin. His recent London’s Central School of Art and Design. projects include Disney’s The Little He has designed for the Paris Opera, Mermaid directed by Francesca Zambello, Metropolitan Opera, Vienna State Opera, Swan Lake (San Francisco Ballet), and English National Opera, Tokyo’s Opera Wagner’s Ring cycle under Maestro Nomori, Flanders Opera, Welsh National Gergiev in St. Petersburg and at Covent Opera, Scottish Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Garden. As an associate of Mesmer (a Canadian Opera Company, Royal National group that explores and furthers the use of Theatre of Great Britain, the Royal imagery and projection in the live arts), he Shakespeare Company, Old Vic Theatre, conceived the video system and process Glasgow Citizens’ Theatre, and for that realized the technologically ground - London’s West End and Broadway. In breaking musical The Woman in White . Canada he has worked for the Shaw Current and future projects include the Festival, Canadian Stage, Tarragon Theatre, musicals Woman On The Verge Of A Soulpepper Theatre, National Ballet of Nervous Breakdown and Wonderland on Canada, and Dancemakers. Recent work Broadway, as well as Rebecca in London’s includes The Magic Flute (Hungarian West End. Other design for Complicite National Opera), Carmen (Netherlands includes Measure for Measure . Opera), Rigoletto (Teatro Real Madrid), The Flying Dutchman (Covent Garden), The Chetna Pandya ’s (Surita Bhogaita/Barbara Coronation of Poppea (Glyndebourne Jones) theater credits include Hens (Sky Opera), Madama Butterfly (Metropolitan Arts Playhouse/Riverside Studios); Behud Opera), Bette Midler’s The Showgirl Must (Soho Theatre/Belgrade Theatre); Arabian Go On (Las Vegas), Wagner’s Ring cycle Nights (RSC); The Spiral , Shades , and (Canadian Opera Company), Candide Unheard Voices (Royal Court); Future (Paris’ Châtélet, La Scala, and English Perfect (Shakespeare’s Globe); Deadeye National Opera). Upcoming work includes (Kali/Birmingham Rep/Soho Theatre), Coram Tannhäuser at Covent Garden. Boy (National Theatre); Lucky Stiff (Lucky 07-15 Disappearing:Gp 3.qxt 7/7/10 12:55 PM Page 12

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Stuff Productions); Romeo and Juliet as Yukio Ninagawa’s Hamlet and Titus (Changeling Theatre and tour); and Kali Andronicus , Matthew Bourne’s A Picture Futures (Kali Theatre). Film and television of Dorian Gray and Carmen , and Cameron work includes Identity (ITV); Holby Blue , Mackintosh’s Phantom of the Opera and Broken News , The Worst Week of My Life , Mary Poppins . The Message , New Tricks , and Doctors (BBC); and Green Wing (Channel 4). Radio Douglas Rintoul (Associate Director) studied work includes A Disappearing Number and drama and theater arts at the University of Bora Bistrah (BBC Radio 3), and Bitter Birmingham. He was awarded a Channel 4 Fruits of Palestine . In 2009 Ms. Pandya Theatre Director’s Scheme grant and co-founded Outspoken Arts, a partnership became resident director at Salisbury that offers bespoke creative workshops for Playhouse for two years, directing six pro - mainstream and marginalized youth and ductions. He was also the first recipient of community groups. the Esmée Fairbairn Regional Theatre Initiative Award. His work for Complicite Saskia Reeves ’ (Ruth Minnen) theater includes associate director on Endgame roles include Hello And Goodbye (Trafalgar and Measure for Measure . Other theater Studios); The Woman Before , King Lear , work includes Europe (barbicanbite 07 / and Ice Cream (Royal Court); Orpheus Dundee Rep); Touched (Trafalgar Studios, Descending (Donmar Warehouse); The nominated for a What’s On Stage Award Darker Face of the Earth (National Theatre); for best solo performance); Design for Much Ado About Nothing , Man of Mode , Living (Les Théâtres de la Ville de and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Cheek Luxembourg); The Taming of the Shrew , By Jowl); Playhouse Creatures (Old Vic); Much Ado About Nothing , and Sweet Panic and Smelling a Rat (Hampstead); Copenhagen (Salisbury Playhouse); King Separation (Hampstead and Comedy); and Lear (Creation); Private Lives ; Travels with my Steven Berkoff’s Metamorphosis at The Aunt (New Wolsey Theatre); and associate Mermaid. She has also worked in various director on Deborah Warner’s Julius Caesar productions with the Royal Shakespeare (barbicanbite 05 ). Future productions include Company and the Young Vic. Ms. Reeves’ Invisible , a new collaborative piece for his more recent television work includes own company, Transport, and Closer for Les Luther (BBC1), Canoe Man (BBC4), and Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg. Red Riding (Channel 4). Her extensive film work includes Hereafter (Clint Eastwood), Nitin Sawhney (Original Music) is one of Me and Orson Wells (Richard Linklater), the busiest, most versatile, and sought-after The Tesseract (Oxide Pang), Close My composers today. He has made eight studio Eyes (Stephen Poliakoff), and December albums, for which he has received numerous Bride (Thaddeus O’Sullivan). awards including a MOBO, two BBC Radio 3 awards, and a Southbank show award. He Donna Richards (Wardrobe Mistress) is has scored over 40 films for cinema and based at Plymouth Theatre Royal, where television, and is currently creating orchestral she has been a member of the Wardrobe music for the BBC flagship series The Human Department for 15 years and has worked Planet . He has performed worldwide with on a varied range of touring shows, including leading orchestras, and has composed those of Plymouth regulars Birmingham Royal extensively for dancer Akram Khan. His Ballet and Glyndebourne Opera. Ms. Richards career spans production and composition has worked on many new productions, such work with Sting, Cirque du Soleil, Paul 07-15 Disappearing:Gp 3.qxt 7/7/10 12:55 PM Page 13

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McCartney, Jeff Beck, Imogen Heap, Taio Broadway), A Dream Play , Mourning Cruz, Ellie Goulding, and Anoushka Becomes Electra , The PowerBook , and Shankar, among others. He has also scored Humble Boy (all at National Theatre); Piaf , for video games, including Sony Hecuba , and The Man Who Had All The Playstation’s Heavenly Sword , and the Luck (Donmar); Judgment Day (Almeida), upcoming Enslaved . Aunt Dan and Lemon (Royal Court); All My Sons (Broadway); The Resistible Rise of Shane Shambhu (Srinivasa Ramanujan/ Arturo Ui (National Actors Theater ); The Dancer) is a dancer, actor, choreographer, Bacchae and Little Otik (National Theatre of and artistic director of Altered Skin. He initially Scotland); The Caretaker (Sheffield Crucible); trained in Bharatanatyam and now works in Moon for the Misbegotten (Old Vic and dance and theater. He has worked on indi - Broadway)l; Julius Caesar (Barbican); King vidual projects and performed with artists Lear , Much Ado About Nothing , King John , and companies including Jonathan Burrows, and Romeo and Juliet (RSC). Radio includes Darshan Singh Bhuller, Filip Van Huffel, A Shropshire Lad , Tennyson’s Maud , and Lisa Torun, inDance (Canada), Srishti (Nina After the Quake . He was twice awarded Rajarani, Place Prize winner 2006), Icon the New York Drama Desk Award for Theatre, Theatre Ad Infinitum, and Outstanding Sound Design and received Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company. Mr. Olivier Award nominations for Coram Boy , Shambhu was artist-in-residence at Derby War Horse , Piaf , and Every Good Boy Dance Centre from 2005 to 2007. In 2006 Deserves Favour . he was given an additional artist-in-residence placement at London’s Leicester Haymarket Rod Wilson (Technical Stage Manager) Theatre and awarded a Bonnie Bird studied music at the University of Exeter. Choreography Award. In 2007 he was He has worked extensively in theater, film, selected to become an associate artist and television in production and art depart - with Dance 4, Nottingham. ment roles. Rod’s work for Complicite includes Endgame , Shun-kin , Measure for Nigel Shilton (Automation Technician) Measure , The Elephant Vanishes , Vanishing trained at Guildhall School of Music and Points , Strange Poetry , Light , and Mnemonic . Drama in stage management and technical theater. He has worked for various theater Complicite and television companies throughout the Complicite was founded in 1983 and under United Kingdom and Europe. the artistic directorship of Simon McBurney has become one of the most influential the - Christopher Shutt ’s (Sound) work for ater companies working in the world today. Complicite includes Measure for Measure , This summer marks its fourth visit to Lincoln The Elephant Vanishes , A Minute Too Late , Center Festival. The company last appeared Mnemonic , Noise of Time , The Street of here in 2004 with The Elephant Vanishes . Crocodiles , The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol , and The Caucasian Chalk Circle . The company’s 2008 –09 production of Shun- Other work includes War Horse , Ruined , kin , based on the writings of Jun’ichiro Every Good Boy Deserves Favour , The Tanizaki, will be revived later this year and White Guard , Really Old Like Forty Five , will be seen in London, Paris, Tokyo, and Burnt by the Sun , The Hour We Knew Taipei. Other recent work includes Endgame Nothing of Each Other , Philistines , Happy (London’s West End) and Measure for Days (also world tour), Coram Boy (also on Measure (National Theatre and world tour). 07-15 Disappearing:Gp 3.qxt 7/7/10 12:56 PM Page 14

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Complicite runs an extensive education pro - Complicite Staff gram which informs and reflects its artistic Artistic Director Simon McBurney output, finding connections and ideas that Producer Judith Dimant contribute to the creation of new work, as Administrator Anita Ashwick well as complementing current productions. Finance Declan Pollock Education Poppy Keeling Complicite, 14 Anglers Lane, London Administrative Coordinator Fiona Stewart NW5 3DG Assistant to the Producer Hannah Schmitz +44 (0) 20 7485 7700 Trustees Sarah Coop , Roger Graef For more information, visit complicite.org. (Chair), Carolyn Jennings , Tom Morris , Mark Rubinstein , Stephen Taylor , Complicite makes its work by investing in Sue Woodford-Hollick the early research and development period, a real commitment to letting a piece of Music Credits work shape its own course and grow at its Original music, Nitin Sawhney own speed. This is a challenging way of Other music in the production includes: working, and one that is threatened by the “Loops and Verses” from Violin Concerto likelihood of funding cuts in the United by John Adams , Nonesuch Records Kingdom. Individual giving schemes are “Seventy-Four” from The Seasons by incredibly important at this time to con - John Cage , ECM tinue working in this way. “Tongue of Secrets” from Legend of the Seven Dreams by Jan Garbarek , ECM For more information on how to support I, op. 2 [for string quartet] from op. by Complicite as an individual donor, business Ryoji Ikeda , Touch partner, or sponsor please send an email to “Cha-Cha-Cha: In a Little Spanish Town” [email protected] . from Celebration Party Dances by Victor Silvester , EMI Complicite Acknowledgements “Cantabile” from Message by Complicite is funded by Arts Council Peteris Vasks , Catalyst/BMG Classics England and supported internationally by “Rishte Bante Hain/Relationships Grow the British Council. Slowly” from You’ve Stolen My Heart by Kronos Quartet and Asha Bhosle , Complicite would like to thank John Nonesuch Records Berger, Paul Bernays, Annie Castledine, Extract from Gilli Salvat interview: The Foyle Foundation, Nadine Frohlich, “Coming to Britain” from Century in Jess Gormley, Amelia Hashemi, James Sound , NSA/Gilli Salvat interviewed by Humphrey, Jeppesen Heaton Ltd, Allegra Damji, 1986, Hall Carpenter Oral Linklaters, London Mathematical Society, History Project, © British Library Sound October Gallery, Michael Ondaatje, Adam Archive, catalogue reference C465/040 Pushkin and the British Council (India), “Quartet Fragment (1908)” from Archana Ramaswamy, Polly Stokes, Wren Memoryhouse by Max Richter , Library, everyone at Theatre Royal Late Junction Plymouth, and special thanks to Charles Diamond, Kingfisher Airlines, and Tata Photon for their support with this tour. 07-15 Disappearing:Gp 3.qxt 7/7/10 12:56 PM Page 15

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David H. Koch Theater David H. Koch Theater Staff at Lincoln Center Managing Director Mark Heiser under the direction of Administration City Center of Music and Drama, Inc. Director of Finance & Administration President Hon. Michael R. Bloomberg Michael Edwards Chairman Martin J. Oppenheimer Associate Director Ana Cecilia Valdez Vice-Chairman Gillian Attfield Assistant Director of Human Resources Lia Rojales GOVERNING BOARD Budget Manager Joseph Padua Susan L. Baker Accounting Manager Armond St. Juste II Frederick W. Beinecke Accounting Manager Louis Milazzo Randall Bourscheidt Milagros Fernandez, Cynthia Graeff, Peg Breen Nicole M. Logan, Rivko Natanov, Randal R. Craft, Jr. Johana Rosa, Tatyana Wasserman Edmée de M. Firth Barry S. Friedberg Information Technology Carla D. Hunter Director Stephan Czarnomski Comm. Kate D. Levin Assistant Manager Yolanda Colon Lynn J. Loacker Network Services Steve Conrad Mark W. Newhouse John Abramowsky, Eric Farrar, Gordon B. Pattee Pedro Santiago, Anthony Vignola Hon. Christine Quinn Hon. Scott M. Stringer Theater Management Manager Jacqueline Mooney John L. Vogelstein Assistant Manager Mari Eckroate Herbert M. Wachtell Office Manager Lynn Cohen Chief Engineer Edward J. Gebel EX-OFFICIO DESIGNEES Treasurer Edward Doolan Amanda Burden for Hon. Michael R. Assistant Treasurer Laura Desario Bloomberg Master Carpenter Frank Lavaia Timothy Thayer for Comm. Kate D. Levin Master Electrician Thomas Maher Susannah Vickers for Hon. Scott M. Stringer Master of Properties Leonard Simoncek Michele S. Rodney for Hon. Christine C. Maintenance Supervisor Rafael Diaz Quinn Performance Manager Lauren Rosen FOUNDERS Performance Porter Darwin Gonzalez Fiorello H. LaGuardia , Newbold Morris , Chief of Security Clem Mitcham Morton Baum Mail Room Supervisor Aracely Diaz

FOUNDING DIRECTORS Subscription Services Mrs. Lytle Hull (1893–1976) Director Nadia Stone Mrs. Arthur M. Reis (1889–1978) Assistant Manager Rosemarie Sciarrone Director Emerita Nancy Norman Lassalle Assistant Manager Keyvan Pourazar Assistant to the Director Shirley Koehler TRUSTEE The theater is owned by the City of New York, Martin E. Segal which has given funds for its refurbishment and which provides an operating subsidy through the Department of Cultural Affairs. 07-15 Disappearing:Gp 3.qxt 7/7/10 12:56 PM Page 16

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Lincoln Center Festival of artistic programming, national leader in Since its inaugural season in 1996, Lincoln arts and education and community relations, Center Festival has received worldwide and manager of the Lincoln Center campus. attention for presenting some of the broadest As a presenter of more than 400 events and most original performing arts programs annually, LCPA’s series include American in Lincoln Center’s history. In 14 seasons, Songbook, Great Performers, Lincoln Center the Festival has presented more than Festival, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, 1,100 performances of opera, music, Midsummer Night Swing, the Mostly Mozart dance, theater, and interdisciplinary forms Festival, and the Emmy Award –winning Live by internationally acclaimed artists from From Lincoln Center . As manager of the more than 50 countries. To date, the Lincoln Center campus, LCPA provides sup - Festival has commissioned 30 new works port and services for the Lincoln Center com - and offered some 120 world, U.S., and plex and its 11 other resident organizations. New York premieres. It places particular In addition, LCPA is leading a series of major emphasis on showcasing contemporary capital projects on behalf of the resident artistic viewpoints and multidisciplinary organizations across the campus. works that push the boundaries of tradi - tional performance. Acknowledgements Lighting and Rigging Equipment Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. PRG Lighting Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Sound Equipment (LCPA) serves three primary roles: presenter Audio Production Services