We went to see this at the Barbican recently. I had never seen Theatre Complicite before but have always wanted to. This show won loads of awards last year and I was also interested because Nitin Sawhney wrote the original music.It is basically the story of a man who meets a woman who he marries. This is it in a nutshell. However its a lot more interesting and complicated than that. The woman is a mathematician and in the background of this story is the story of two emminant mathematicians from the past: GH Hardy and Sirinivasa Ramanujan and their work at Cambridge University around the time of the First World War. Ramanujan had written to Hardy who in turn invited him to come from India to work with him.
The play goes backwards and forwards in time and tells their stories and the story of the man and his wife which is inter-weaved when she travels to India to see where Ramanujan lived and worked.
It does get a bit complicated in parts but I did lean something about maths. Here goes:
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 ...∞ (ie to infinity) = minus 1/12th.
Apparently.
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