10 - 25 September Aldwych, London, WC2B 4LD • A DELFONT MACKINTOSH THEATRE ‘Mind-bending and heart-stopping’ The Independent Conceived and Directed by Simon McBurney …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. With a haunting original score by Nitin Sawhney, this piece of startling visual poetry from Simon McBurney and Complicite is a compelling meditation on love, mathematics and the pain of exile in an age when we think we can belong anywhere and have everything. Conceived and Directed by Simon McBurney Devised by The Company David Annen Firdous Bamji Paul Bhattacharjee Hiren Chate Divya Kasturi Chetna Pandya Saskia Reeves Shane Shambhu Original Music by Nitin Sawhney Design by Michael Levine Lighting by Paul Anderson Sound by Christopher Shutt Projection by Sven Ortel Costume by Christina Cunningham Originally co-produced by Complicite, the Barbican London, Ruhrfestspiele, Wiener Festwochen, Holland Festival, in association with Theatre Royal Plymouth. 19 PERFORMANCES ONLY 10 - 25 September FOLLOWING ITS SEASONS IN NEW YORK AND INDIA COMPLICITE – LONDON 2010 Barbican Theatre: SHUN-KIN 4 - 13 Nov. ★★★★ ‘A visually and physically beautiful production’ The Sunday Times ENO @ London Coliseum – UK premiere: A DOG’S HEART 20 Nov - 4 Dec. ★★★★ ‘A total sensory extravaganza’ Financial Times BOX OFFICE 0844 482 5170 Booking fee £1.75 per ticket, except those made in person at the Box Office ONLINE www.delfontmackintosh.co.uk www.complicite.org PERFORMANCE TIMES Monday - Saturday evenings 7.30pm Wednesday and Saturday matinees 2.30pm Performance length: 120 minutes (no interval) TICKET PRICES Stalls £10, £35, £45 · Dress Circle £35, £45 Grand Circle £20 * , £30, £35 · Balcony £10, £20 * some seats may have a restricted view All prices include a £1 restoration levy GROUPS 0844 482 5100 Groups 8+ best available seats reduced to £27.50 Schools 8+ best available seats reduced to £19.50 Monday - Friday performances plus Saturday matinees HOSPITALITY Special occasion or entertaining clients? For more information call 0844 482 5166 ACCESS Call 0844 482 5137 for access requirements and rates TRAVEL AND PARKING Tube: Covent Garden/Charing Cross Overland: Charing Cross · Buses: 6, 11, 13 and 15 Parking: in Drury Lane. POST PERFORMANCE DISCUSSIONS There will be special post performance discussions with members of the cast and company on Monday 13 and Tuesday 21 September - free to ticket holders of that evening’s performance. Design & print: Target Live · Photograph: Joris-Jan Bos, Stephanie Berger and Robbie Jack
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10 - 25 September
Aldwych, London, WC2B 4LD • A DELFONT MACKINTOSH THEATRE
‘Mind-bending and heart-stopping’The Independent
Conceived and Directed by
Simon McBurney
…weaves together the story of two love affairs, separatedby 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 mathematicianof the 20th century, Srinivasa Ramanujan, a pennilessBrahmin from Madras in South India, and his British counterpart, the brilliant Cambridge don GH Hardy.
With a haunting original score by Nitin Sawhney, this pieceof startling visual poetry from Simon McBurney and Complicite is a compelling meditation on love, mathematicsand the pain of exile in an age when we think we can belong anywhere and have everything.
Conceived and Directed by Simon McBurneyDevised by The Company
David Annen Firdous Bamji
Paul Bhattacharjee Hiren Chate
Divya Kasturi Chetna Pandya Saskia Reeves
Shane ShambhuOriginal Music by Nitin Sawhney
Design by Michael LevineLighting by Paul Anderson
Sound by Christopher ShuttProjection by Sven Ortel
Costume by Christina Cunningham
Originally co-produced by Complicite, the Barbican London, Ruhrfestspiele, Wiener Festwochen, Holland Festival, in association with Theatre Royal Plymouth.
19 PERFORMANCES ONLY10 - 25 SeptemberFOLLOWING ITS SEASONS IN NEW YORK AND INDIA
COMPLICITE – LONDON 2010Barbican Theatre: SHUN-KIN 4 - 13 Nov.
���� ‘A visually and physically beautiful production’ The Sunday Times
ENO @ London Coliseum – UK premiere: A DOG’S HEART 20 Nov - 4 Dec.���� ‘A total sensory extravaganza’ Financial Times
BOX OFFICE 0844 482 5170Booking fee £1.75 per ticket, except those made in person at the Box Office
ONLINEwww.delfontmackintosh.co.ukwww.complicite.org
PERFORMANCE TIMESMonday - Saturday evenings 7.30pmWednesday and Saturday matinees 2.30pm
Performance length: 120 minutes (no interval)
TICKET PRICESStalls £10, £35, £45 · Dress Circle £35, £45Grand Circle £20*, £30, £35 · Balcony £10, £20* some seats may have a restricted view
All prices include a £1 restoration levy
GROUPS 0844 482 5100Groups 8+ best available seats reduced to £27.50Schools 8+ best available seats reduced to £19.50
Monday - Friday performances plus Saturday matinees
HOSPITALITYSpecial occasion or entertaining clients?For more information call 0844 482 5166
ACCESSCall 0844 482 5137 for access requirements and rates
TRAVEL AND PARKINGTube: Covent Garden/Charing CrossOverland: Charing Cross · Buses: 6, 11, 13 and 15 Parking: in Drury Lane.
POST PERFORMANCE DISCUSSIONSThere will be special post performance discussions with members of the cast and company on Monday 13 and Tuesday 21 September- free to ticket holders of that evening’s performance.
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‘Technically DAZZLING ANDBEAUTIFULLY STAGED’
New York Post
����� ‘Marvellously acted and often
deliciously comic piece... A DISAPPEARING NUMBER
is a wonder and one I cannot recommend too highly’
Daily Telegraph
‘Dazzling stagecraft…A SHOW THAT MUST
BE SEEN’Time Out
“Inexhaustable originality”Sunday Times
�����‘Brilliant, miraculously fluid
new show makes mind-blowingtheatre out of maths; it teases
your brain whilst breaking your heart’
Mail On Sunday
����� ‘A miracle of multimedia poetry...
ESSENTIAL VIEWING’The Independent
‘EXTRAORDINARY, BEAUTIFUL piece of theatre... superlatively acted production captures minds and hearts’
Evening Standard
‘MESMERIZING’New York Times
10 - 25 September
Aldwych, London, WC2B 4LD • A DELFONT MACKINTOSH THEATRE
‘Mind-bending and heart-stopping’The Independent
Conceived and Directed by
Simon McBurney
…weaves together the story of two love affairs, separatedby 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 mathematicianof the 20th century, Srinivasa Ramanujan, a pennilessBrahmin from Madras in South India, and his British counterpart, the brilliant Cambridge don GH Hardy.
With a haunting original score by Nitin Sawhney, this pieceof startling visual poetry from Simon McBurney and Complicite is a compelling meditation on love, mathematicsand the pain of exile in an age when we think we can belong anywhere and have everything.
Conceived and Directed by Simon McBurneyDevised by The Company
David Annen Firdous Bamji
Paul Bhattacharjee Hiren Chate
Divya Kasturi Chetna Pandya Saskia Reeves
Shane ShambhuOriginal Music by Nitin Sawhney
Design by Michael LevineLighting by Paul Anderson
Sound by Christopher ShuttProjection by Sven Ortel
Costume by Christina Cunningham
Originally co-produced by Complicite, the Barbican London, Ruhrfestspiele, Wiener Festwochen, Holland Festival, in association with Theatre Royal Plymouth.
19 PERFORMANCES ONLY10 - 25 SeptemberFOLLOWING ITS SEASONS IN NEW YORK AND INDIA
COMPLICITE – LONDON 2010Barbican Theatre: SHUN-KIN 4 - 13 Nov.
���� ‘A visually and physically beautiful production’ The Sunday Times
ENO @ London Coliseum – UK premiere: A DOG’S HEART 20 Nov - 4 Dec.���� ‘A total sensory extravaganza’ Financial Times
Tickets available from all recognised ticket agenciesPERFORMANCE TIMESMonday - Saturday evenings 7.30pmWednesday and Saturday matinees 2.30pm
Performance length: 120 minutes (no interval)
TRAVEL AND PARKINGTube: Covent Garden/Charing CrossOverland: Charring CrossBuses: 6, 11, 13 and 15Parking: in Drury Lane
POST PERFORMANCE DISCUSSIONSThere will be special post performance discussions with members of the cast and company on Monday 13 and Tuesday 21 August - free to ticket holders of that evening’s performance.
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& p
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