Mathematics of the Heart

Synopsis

What happens when love doesn’t add up? Love and chaos collide in this funny and tender new play about the risks we take for love. Paul MacMillan is a Doctor of Chaos Theory. Specialist subject: storm patterns. But with his itinerant musician brother living on his sofa and his girlfriend Emma pushing for a new future, prediction is proving increasingly difficult. The arrival of a PhD student, Zainab, catapults Paul’s world into real chaos and unleashes events that no one could ever have foreseen.

Our Review:

Nancy Groves - 10 February 2012

Maths has proved a fruitful topic for theatre, with patterns and complexity rich in metaphors of beauty, truth and human nature – most memorably in Theatre de Complicité’s A Disappearing Number, about the collaboration between two of the 20th century’s greatest mathematicians.

The protagonist of Kefi Chadwick’s Mathematics of the Heart is no such genius. Professor of chaos theory at a minor London university, Dr Paul Macmillan (Mark Healy) is studying storm patterns, in life as in work. On one front sits his brooding girlfriend Emma (Isabel Pollen), on the other his whirlwind of a younger brother, Chancer (Mark Cameron), crashing at Paul’s following the death of their dad.

Crash being the key word. Nothing about Chancer comes without noise, unlike Paul, whose academic focus verges on the autistic. “Like two double pendulums,” comment...

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