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Disappearing number is based on maths, culture and the life and death in the world, the play was thought up and directed by Simon McBurney.

The play is amazingly abstract in the ways it puts across meaningful concepts that take place around the world.

The play was very visually in tune with the audience, adding things to break up large parts of script.

For example when al the main character was playing with the over head projector and we could see everything on it made the scene have more of a fun element, I think this also gets the audience to keep focus. Also by adding a random song and dance to the play shocked the audience with the sudden change, I think this worked well because it was another way of showing the number sequences with an audio beat.

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Other fun and different elements I picked up on were a screen changes the set from India to Cambridge, A bed turns what can be seen from an airplane window.

From what I understood about the play I found that it’s about two stories involved into one.

The first is about an intellectual relationship between a Brahmin math genius and a Cambridge colleague set in the First World War.

The other which is the main story is about a modern university teacher and her American and Indian partner Al, who is a futures dealer.

While the older mathematic ...

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