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Big thanks go out to our friends at Baker Tilly for their ongoing support of The Lexi! They’ve recently been helping us with printing of promotional material for a few different campaigns.

You’ve probably come across some of our sexy, slightly cryptic advertising – devised and executed by resident genius Ryan Lanji –  for our trio of outdoor screenings, featuring Wanted! posters and tearstained letters from Ilsa to Rick – both for Casablanca at Queens Park on Fri 17 Sept – and a painstakingly tea-stained and lighter-singed treasure map leading to the Lost Ark for our Indiana Jones show at Roundwood Park on Sat 18 Sept. You might also have been lucky enough to receive a wedding invitation to Mamma Mia! at Roundwood on Sun 12 Sept.

So thanks again Baker Tilly for your support of our shows and what we like to think of as public art!

Baker Tilly is a leading independent firm of accountants and business advisers that specialises in providing an integrated range of services. We provide our growing and established business clients with audit, accountancy, personal and corporate taxation, VAT, management consultancy, corporate finance, IT advisory, restructuring and recovery and forensic services.  The firm has national coverage through its network of offices and is represented internationally through its independent membership of Baker Tilly International.

“Quietly mesmerizing…lucid, dynamic and continuously engaging”

Charles Isherwood, New York Times

THURSDAY 14 SEPT (1845) – Book tickets now…

This production, directed by Simon McBurney, was winner of the 2008 Olivier Award for Best New Play.

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.

A Disappearing Number

A Disappearing Number opened in Plymouth in 2007 and has subsequently toured all over the world, most recently to New York, Mumbai and Hyderabad. Prior to the National Theatre Live broadcast it will play a limited West End season. Awards include the Olivier Award for Best New Play (2008), the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play (2007) and The Critics’ Circle Theatre Award for Best New Play (2007).

With an 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.

A Complicite co-production with the Barbican, London, Ruhrfestspiele, Wiener Festwochen, Holland Festival, in association with Theatre Royal Plymouth.

Cast in alphabetical order

David Annen                                        G.H. Hardy

Firdous Bamji                                      Al Cooper

Paul Bhattacharjee                             Aninda Rao

Hiren Chate                                         Tabla player

Divya Kasturi                                       Mother/University Cleaner/Dancer

Chetna Pandya                                   Surita Bhogaita/Barbara Jones

Saskia Reeves                                    Ruth Minnen

Shane Shambhu                                 Srinivasa Ramanujan/Dancer

Production Team

Conceived and Directed by Simon McBurney

Devised by The Company

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

Press Quotes

“A thrilling, thrilling, thrilling play” David Finkel, Washington Post

“Quietly mesmerizing…lucid, dynamic and continuously engaging” Charles Isherwood, New York Times

“Technically dazzling and beautifully staged” Frank Scheck, New York Post

“Marvelously acted and often deliciously comic piece… A Disappearing Number is a wonder and one I cannot recommend too highly.” Daily Telegraph

“Mind-bending and heart-stopping” The Independent

“Brilliant, miraculously fluid new show makes mind-blowing theatre out of maths; it teases your brain whilst breaking your heart.” Mail on Sunday

“Extraordinary, beautiful piece of theatre…superlatively acted production captures minds and hearts.” Evening Standard

“Abstract ideas effortlessly inform the human dramas, and the whole, impressive production is even greater than the sum of its marvellous parts” Jennifer Farrar, The Examiner

Complicite

Complicite is an internationally acclaimed theatre company, based in London. Led by Artistic Director Simon McBurney, the Company has won over 50 major awards worldwide.

The Company’s 2008/09 production of Shun-kin, based on the writings of Jun’ichiro Tanizaki, will be on tour later this year and will be seen in London, Paris, Tokyo and Taipei. A Dog’s Heart – a new opera by Alexander Raskatov, based on the novella by Mikhail Bulgakov and directed by Simon McBurney – can be seen at ENO in November. Other recent work included Endgame (London West End), Measure for Measure (National Theatre and world tour) and The Elephant Vanishes (Barbican, Setagaya Public Theatre and world tour).

Alongside its productions Complicite runs an extensive education programme which informs and reflects its artistic output.

Further information about the Company can be found at http://www.complicite.org/

The cinema adaptation of the Posy Simmonds‘ Guardian graphic novel series is in the safe hands of director Stephen Frears (The Queen, High Fidelity, The Grifters), with Gemma Arterton as the eponymous heroine, with support from Dominic Cooper, Roger Allam and Tamsin Greig on show-stealing form.

Unlike the rest of his companions at the South Pole, Jasper the penguin believes there is a greater world beyond the edge of the ice. He is proved right when he finds himself aboard an ocean liner in the company of the rarest of birds, the Kakapo, whose main trait is that when frightened she wells up like a balloon. Along with Emma, the captain’s daughter, Jasper becomes embroiled in a rescue mission to save the Kakapo’s eggs from the menacing Dr Block and his sidekick Rolf. Just for laughs, here’s the French version of the trailer…(the English version isn’t quite finished)

Evoking the empowered spirit of ERIN BROKOVICH and CLOSER, Julia Roberts gives a memorable performance in this bittersweet drama from director Ryan Murphy (RUNNING WITH SCISSORS). Just don’t call it a chick flick. Based on Elizabeth Gilbert’s bestselling memoir, EAT, PRAY, LOVE follows the incredible journey of a disenchanted divorcee who travels around the world to rediscover herself. Sampling the culinary delights of Italy, the sanctuary of prayer in India, and the meaning of true love in Bali, she quickly discovers that sometimes in order to fully find yourself, you have to lose yourself first. Filled with the same wry wit and spiritual exuberance that saw the book receive international acclaim, EAT, PRAY, LOVE is an educational and heart-warming affair.

In the eternal battle between cats and dogs, one crazed feline has just taken things a paw too far. Kitty Galore, a former elite agent for spy organisation MEOWS, has gone rogue. In 48 hours, she plans to unleash a diabolical device designed not only to bring her canine enemies to heel but take down her former kitty comrades and make the world her scratching post.

Faced with this immediate and unprecedented threat, cats and dogs will be forced to work together for the first time in history in an unlikely alliance to save themselves – and their beloved humans – from global cat-astrophe. It’s time for fur to fly…

12-year-old Dre Parker (Jaden Smith) could’ve been the most popular kid in Detroit, but his mother’s latest career move has taken them to China. Dre immediately falls for his classmate Mei Ying, but cultural differences make such a friendship impossible. Even worse, Dre’s feelings make an enemy of the class bully, and kung fu prodigy, Cheng. In the land of kung fu, Dre knows only a little karate, and Cheng puts “the karate kid” on the floor with ease. With no friends in a strange land, Dre has nowhere to turn but maintenance man Mr. Han (Jackie Chan), who is secretly a kung fu master. As Han teaches Dre that kung fu is not about punches and skill, but maturity and calm, Dre realizes that facing down the bullies will be the adventure of a lifetime.

The cinema adaptation of the Posy Simmonds‘ Guardian graphic novel series is in the safe hands of director Stephen Frears (The Queen, High Fidelity, The Grifters), with Gemma Arterton as the eponymous heroine, with support from Dominic Cooper, Roger Allam and Tamsin Greig on show-stealing form.  Tickets on sale soon…