[Theatresquirrel]

By quite some distance, the show of the year.

Some folks have said it's inaccessible but that's patently not true - okay, it requires you to listen and it invites you to think, but if you're willing to do that, it's incredibly resonant, provocative and above all lucid, from the second it starts. And regardless of those effects that may seem 'familiar' to folks who have seen Complicite shows before, there's still no-one else doing stuff quite like this with such endlessly generous invention, and they're raising their own bar all the time. It's like seeing the theatre of the future right now.

I have no idea what every little bit meant, of course in the gulfstream of information and effects some bits just wash right by you, but I was moved, awed, confounded, translated, everything.

Definitely the best twelve quid I've spent in 2007.

[josh]

By quite some distance, the show of the year.

Some folks have said it's inaccessible but that's patently not true - okay, it requires you to listen and it invites you to think, but if you're willing to do that, it's incredibly resonant, provocative and above all lucid, from the second it starts. And regardless of those effects that may seem 'familiar' to folks who have seen Complicite shows before, there's still no-one else doing stuff quite like this with such endlessly generous invention, and they're raising their own bar all the time. It's like seeing the theatre of the future right now.

I have no idea what every little bit meant, of course in the gulfstream of information and effects some bits just wash right by you, but I was moved, awed, confounded, translated, everything.

Definitely the best twelve quid I've spent in 2007.

Oh my! I'm off to see it tomorrow night - you have got me really excited now, especially since I often have similar opinions to you.

Do you think any background reading is necessary as some others have said?

[Theatresquirrel]

Nah, prior reading not necessary. You probably know already it's the true story of a savant Indian mathematician who is befriended by a Cambridge maths tutor, and that their saga is interwoven with the fictional story of a present-day female maths lecturer who goes to India and the husband she leaves behind. But it has a narrator who telegraphs all this clearly, so long as you listen to him and don't tune out too much watching all the pretty shapes.

I was sat way back and side-ish and had no probs with that.

[Sam Nash]

I thought this was completely brilliant - i didnt do any homework (but am not bad at maths) but i am not sure it matters - some many ideas, so many brilliant images. I am telling all my friends to go now.

(I did sit on the side and didnt have any trouble with the view but i wish they would put late comers somewhere else as they had to keep opening the doors to the aisles to let people in and it was very distracting)

[Alexandra]

You were translated, Squirrel?

[Matthew Winn]

You were translated, Squirrel?

In a mathematical context translated has a different meaning. Perhaps the Squirrel was moved by the story.

(Bad maths puns. I am the god of geeks.)

[josh]

Um yeah I pretty much loved it.

I found a few bits inexplicable but overall it was beautiful. I cried quite heavily at the end.

[Theatresquirrel]

Yep, I was translated. Try it sometime.




translate

2. to change the form, condition, nature, etc., of; transform; convert
12. to exalt in spiritual or emotional ecstasy; enrapture