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Join
Stefano Di Pietro and his theatre company Absurda Comica for
a three-day theatre workshop on the Commedia dell’ Arte. This workshop,
which has been offered throughout the world, will explore Dario Fo’s
unique theatrical techniques, and other aspects of the Commedia dell’ Arte,
including the use of the body and gesture as a form of comic language,
the use of the invented language of “Grammelot,” and the
use of pantomime, acrobatics, walks, comic entrances, and masks.
Three participants from the workshop will be selected to perform
alongside
the Absurda Comica company for the two performances of Mistero Buffo. For
more information or to register contact Continuing Education & Public
Programs, The Graduate Center, CUNY at 212 817-8215 or continuinged@gc.cuny.edu or
check http://web.gc.cuny.edu/cepp
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Dario
Fo and The Commedia dell’Arte
Cosponsored by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center and the Istituto Italiano Di Cultura, New York. 3527 - Thursday, September 18th 4-6:30pm $15 donation guarantees a seat;
free to CUNY students |
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Join Stefano Di Pietro, one of Dario Fo’s most prolific students and collaborators, and his theatre company Absurda Comica from Rome for two performances of selections from Dario Fo’s Nobel Prize-winning Mistero Buffo. This work represents the height of Mr. Fo’s unique style of play writing and performance, and has gained popularity for its use of “Grammelot,” a language invented to escape censorship as the show toured throughout Italy and abroad. Stefano Di Pietro and Gianni Pontillo will perform the pieces La fame dello zanni ,Bonifacio VIII ,l’Arlecchino fallotropo ,Grammelot dell’avvocato inglese , and La droga-la scommessa . A discussion will follow each of the performances. Cosponsored by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center and the Istituto Italiano Di Cultura, New York. 3525 - Friday, September 19th 5:30pm $10 donation guarantees seat; free
to CUNY students |
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Holocaust
Studies Series 3481 -
Wednesday, September 17th 6:15-8pm Free |
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For fourteen years the Galileo Orbiter has been our eyes and ears in its travels through our solar system, unraveling the mystery of Jupiter and its many satellites. On September 21, 2003 the craft will fly directly into the planet and be destroyed. Join us for a concert of rock, folk, and funk music, provided by Redshift Productions, in celebration of the life and successes of the Galileo spacecraft. Seating is limited, so please call in advance for reservations. Cosponsored by The Science Center and by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center. 3897 -
Wednesday, September 17th 6pm Free |
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The
A.R.T New York / Martin E. Segal Theatre Center On October 2, 3, and 4, 2003, the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center and A.R.T. New York will present the Prelude Weekend Series at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. A New York first-the magnificent pre-season celebration of some of the best theatre that New York City has to offer, the Prelude Weekend will provide a forum that exemplifies the diverse work being produced by members of New York's distinctive non-profit Off-Broadway Theatre community. The Graduate Center will host 16 member companies of the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York, providing New York students, faculty and teachers, theatre professionals, and theatre-goers a first look at the eclectic work being developed for the upcoming 2003-04 season and beyond. Inspired by Washington, D.C's Kennedy Center program Journey from Page to Stage, the Prelude to Off- Broadway weekend will include readings of new plays, sample rehearsals and process workshops, as well as a series of panel discussions. Many of the presentations will be followed by discussion. Audience members will have a rare chance to see plays in the early stages of development, and artistic directors will have a chance to talk about their developmental process in front of the audience and colleagues. The weekend will kick off with a panel discussion on Thursday, October 2nd: Illuminating 30 Years of Not for Profit Off-Broadway Theatre. Artistic and managing directors will discuss their experiences and offer their insights about changes in the producing landscape over the past three decades from artistic choices to funding to theatre reviews. Tickets for all events are free - seating is limited. First-come, first served basis. No reservation required. A guaranteed ticket for the Thursday 7 PM Panel Illuminating 30 Years of Off-Broadway may be reserved for a $10.00 donation through the Graduate Center's Continuing Education and Public Programs department at 212 817-8215 continuinged@gc.cuny.edu reservation code 3928.
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Paris Was My Liberation The
Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presents the world premiere screening
of a unique three-part historical documentary. Paris Was My Liberation
is the first film series to explore the World War II experiences
of Parisian Music Hall performers, who used their positions to
support the armed Resistance against the German Occupation and
to rescue Jews and other victims from Nazi persecution. Produced
by Dramatic Risks, Inc. and directed by Mark Waren, the documentary
weaves original testimonies with never-before-seen archival footage.
The film screenings will be accompanied by scholarly commentary,
question and answer sessions, and a panel discussion with the film’s
creative team, which includes Oscar-winning director of photography
Kevin Keating. 3415 - 3 Thursdays, October 9th, 16th & 23 rd 7:30pm $25 series
For
more information or to register contact Continuing Education & Public
Programs, The Graduate Center, CUNY at 212 817-8215 or continuinged@gc.cuny.edu or
check http://web.gc.cuny.edu/cepp |
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The Dybbuk / Between Two Worlds
October 20th, 2003, 6:30 PM Cosponsored
by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center and the CUNY Ph.D. Program Seating
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Science & the
Arts
For more information or to register contact Continuing Education & Public Programs, The Graduate Center, CUNY at 212 817-8215 or continuinged@gc.cuny.edu or check http://web.gc.cuny.edu/cepp |
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Who won the Nobel Prize, kept people awake by playing bongo drums at Los Alamos, and wrote a best-seller? No one but the brilliant and irrepressible physicist Richard Feynman. Film and television actor Norman Parker will perform a solo tribute, delivering the man’s wit and wisdom in his own words. The tribute will be followed by a bongo performance by Tom Rutishauer. [Please note: Feynman Lives! is not in any way related to Peter Parnell’s play, QED.] Cosponsored by The Science Center and by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center. 3899 -
Monday, October 27th 6pm Free |
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Science & the
Arts On the brink of a revolutionary discovery, a liberal biologist has to choose between altruism and financial success. Ensemble Studio Theatre and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Science and Technology Project present a staged reading of Israel Horovitz ’s promises.com, starring Bob Dishy ,Novella Nelson ,Douglas Simmons , and Mary McCormack , and directed by Michael Morris from old Vic Theatre. An audience talk-back with the author, director, and cast will immediately follow the reading. Cosponsored by The Science Center; Research and Sponsored Programs and by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, The Graduate Center, CUNY. 3448 -
Monday, November 3 rd 7pm Free |
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Victoria Nelson, the author of the recent
The Secret Life of Puppets, reminds us that even in a perpetually-ironic postmodern society, we are always gripped by the fantastical power of the spiritual and the supernatural. Harold Bloom has described Nelson's work as "alive and disturbingly truthful." In her lecture entitled "THE NEW ALLEGORY," Nelson asks us to revisit the morality plays of old and shows how they are embodied anew in the work of Antenna Theater, a contemporary California theatre group. "Skin & Bones/Flesh & Blood" reinvents the morality play in a site-based performance mixing animated objects and puppet-headed human characters. The piece, which follows a suburban matron Everywoman in her journey through life, death, and afterward, uses allegory, mime, multiple environments, and Walkman audio narrative commentary in aesthetically innovative ways. By illustrating the deep and unexpected connections between human-centric Expressionism and the old god-centric Neoplatonism, the complex reactions the Antenna Theater's staging produces in its audiences as they walk through the Marin County Recycling Center are surprisingly not unlike those of the old allegories. Cosponsored by the CUNY Ph. D. Program in Theatre and the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center. November 17th, 2003 6:30 PM FREE. No reservations required. Seating is limited and on a first-come, first-served basis. The program will take place in the Martin E. Segal Theatre and will also include actual VHS/sound clips from a 1996 Antenna Theatre performance.
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Monday, December 8 6pm Free |
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An Evening with Japanese Kyôgen Actor and Director Mansai Nomura
Cosponsored by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center; The Japan Society; The Ph.D. Program in Theatre, The Graduate Center, CUNY; and by the Saison Foundation. 3907 -
Tuesday, December 9th 6:30pm $10 donation guarantees a seat; free
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Dislocation
and Reinvention Join us for four readings exploring immigration and the experience of
transition in our society.
Part I
In a small town in Iran, a young woman must decide between her lover and a new life in the new world. Years later, her Americanized son starts a relationship with another man who has just fled from persecution in Iran. The play tracks the costs of transition, or translation, between languages, cultures, and generations.
Novid Parsi, playwright and author of criticism and short stories; his plays have been produced and given staged readings by Channel Theatre Company, Immigrants' Theatre Project, Packhorse Productions, Paines Plough, and Young Vic, among others; he is the son of Iranian immigrants. Directed by Victor Maog, who has worked at Second Stage, Hartford Stage, Lark Theatre Company, and Immigrants' Theatre Project; has directed/taught at NYU, UPenn, and Fordham; co-creator of Journey Theatre for Immigrants' Theatre Project and Safe Horizon/Solace, an eight month-long ensemble creation with political asylees and victims of war trauma and torture; member of the LCT Directors Lab, NYU/Tisch First Look Theatre Company, and SSDC. Co-sponsored byThe New Group and the Immigrant's Theatre Project
Monday, February 23 Reservation Code: 4064 For more information or to register contact Continuing Education & Public Programs, The Graduate Center, CUNY at 212 817-8215 or continuinged@gc.cuny.edu or check http://web.gc.cuny.edu/cepp
Luigi Pirandello's Tonight We Improvise
Directed by: Elfin Frederick Vogel Co-sponsored by: Istituto Italiano di Cultura of New York; the Ph.D. Program in Theatre, The Graduate Center, CUNY; the Pirandello Society of America.
Monday, March 1 Reservation Code: 4084 For more information or to register contact Continuing Education & Public Programs, The Graduate Center, CUNY at 212 817-8215 or continuinged@gc.cuny.edu or check http://web.gc.cuny.edu/cepp
Dislocation and Reinvention, Part II
Three old immigrant men wait on the beach for news of the outside world to arrive. To pass the time, they replay an imagined all-star soccer match. In this hilarious tribute to Samuel Beckett, the loneliness and isolation of immigration are held at bay by the indomitable hope of the world's greatest sport.
Joe Hortua, playwright, currently under commission at the South Coast Repertory Theatre; his play Making It premiered at South Coast Repertory Theatre; his new play, Between Us, will premiere at Manhattan Theatre Club in April, directed by Christopher Ashley. Directed by Ian Morgan, Associate Artistic Director at The New Group Theater Company; he has directed new work at HERE Arts Center, The Red Room, Lincoln Center Directors Lab, Center Stage, Rattlestick Theater, and assisted at Manhattan Theatre Club. Co-sponsored by: The New Group and the Immigrant's Theatre Project
Monday, March 15 Reservation Code: 4175 For more information or to register contact Continuing Education & Public Programs, The Graduate Center, CUNY at 212 817-8215 or continuinged@gc.cuny.edu or check http://web.gc.cuny.edu/cepp
Science & the Arts
Director: Robert Neff Williams Co sponsored by: The Bernard Shaw Society; The New York Academy of Sciences; the Science Center, The Graduate Center, CUNY.
Tuesday, March 30 Reservation Code: 4018 For more information or to register contact Continuing Education & Public Programs, The Graduate Center, CUNY at 212 817-8215 or continuinged@gc.cuny.edu or check http://web.gc.cuny.edu/cepp For more information on other programs in the Science & the Arts Series visit: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/sciart
Dislocation and Reinvention, Part III
New York in the 1850s featuring Irish and Chinese working girls, a madam, a smuggler and a gangster at the infamous suicide saloon, where the poor come to kill themselves while the rich pay to watch. Michael Angel Johnson, playwright whose plays have been produced throughout the country; her play The Price Of Solitude was a finalist in the 1998 National Ten-Minute Play Contest at Actors Theatre of Louisville; Associate Professor at New York University and a MacDowell Fellow. Directed by Suzanne Bennett, Director of Special Projects for Women's Project and Productions where she heads up the Directors Forum; directed and developed new work for theatres in San Francisco, where she was Artistic Director of the Eureka Theatre, and in New York. Co-sponsored by The New Group and the Immigrant's Theatre Project
Monday, April 12 Reservation Code: 4176 For more information or to register contact Continuing Education & Public Programs, The Graduate Center, CUNY at 212 817-8215 or continuinged@gc.cuny.edu or check http://web.gc.cuny.edu/cepp
Behind the Scenes at Golda's Balcony
Co-sponsored by CUNY's Ph. D. Program in Theatre.
Monday, April 12th Reservation Code: 4504 For more information or to register contact Continuing Education & Public Programs, The Graduate Center, CUNY at 212 817-8215 or continuinged@gc.cuny.edu or check http://web.gc.cuny.edu/cepp
Science & the Arts
Cosponsored by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center and the Ph.D Program in Physics, The Graduate Center, CUNY.
Monday, April 19 Reservation Code: 4021 For more information or to register contact Continuing Education & Public Programs, The Graduate Center, CUNY at 212 817-8215 or continuinged@gc.cuny.edu or check http://web.gc.cuny.edu/cepp
George Bartenieff in I Will Bear Witness:
George Bartenieff, winner of three OBIE awards for production and performance; actor and artistic director in NYC for over 50 years; graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama; awarded a 2001 OBIE award for the original Classic Stage production of I Will Bear Witness; Dr. Steven Gorelick, Vice President for Institutional Advancement, The Graduate Center, CUNY; 2001 recipient of a residential faculty fellowship at The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, where he examined the worldwide reception of the discovery and publication of the Klemperer diaries.
Directed and co-adapted by: Karen Malpede Cosponsored by Theatre Three Collaborative, INC.
Tuesday, April 20, 5:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Reservation Code 4173 - Tuesday, April 20 5:30 p.m. For more information or to register contact Continuing Education & Public Programs, The Graduate Center, CUNY at 212 817-8215 or continuinged@gc.cuny.edu or check http://web.gc.cuny.edu/cepp
THE HEIRS OF MOLIÈRE:
An eighteenth century gentleman finds himself in love with his wife, a most unfashionable situation! Metropolitan Playhouse Artistic Producing Director, Alex Roe, will direct a staged reading of Pierre Nivelle de la Chaussès The Fashionable Prejudice. This reading is a premiere presentation of one of four plays contained in the latest Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Publication, The Heirs of Molière (translated and edited by Sidney E. Cohn Distinguished Professor of Theatre and Comparative Literature, Marvin Carlson). A small reception will follow. Post-performance discussion moderated by: Professor Marvin Carlson
Monday, April 26 For Reservations call: 1-212-995-5302
Rosa Loses Her Face Mother vs. daughter in the eternal battle of wills and values. When "wayward thinking" New Yorker Amy visits her mother Rosa in Los Angeles, Rosa is determined to foist marriage and filial pity onto her, with an airborne roast Peking Duck as the weapon of choice. Kitty Chen, recipient of playwriting fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts, among others; her plays include Eating Chicken Feet (NEA); I See My Bones; and Rowing to America; her work has been presented by Women's Project/ Pan-Asian Rep, Kumu Kahua, Urban Stages, Manhattan Theatre Club, and Second Stage. Directed by Marcy Arlin, Artistic Director of the Obie-winning Immigrants' Theatre Project and freelance director; Lecturer in Theatre and Communications at CUNY; an original member of the Lincoln Center Theatre Directors Lab, Women's Project Directors Forum, and the NYU Graduate Writing Programs' First Look Directors Co; produced or directed with ITP over 70 new plays by writers. Co-sponsored by: The New Group and the Immigrant's Theatre Project
Wednesday, April 28 Reservation Code: 4177 For more information or to register contact Continuing Education & Public Programs, The Graduate Center, CUNY at 212 817-8215 or continuinged@gc.cuny.edu or check http://web.gc.cuny.edu/cepp
Science & the Arts
Cosponsored by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center and the Ph.D Program in Mathematics, The Graduate Center, CUNY.
Monday, May 17 Reservation Code: 4022 For more information or to register contact Continuing Education & Public Programs, The Graduate Center, CUNY at 212 817-8215 or continuinged@gc.cuny.edu or check http://web.gc.cuny.edu/cepp
Kamp!-Song and Satire from the "Paradise Ghetto" Theresienstadt
Join Sergei Dreznin and actors Amelia DeMayo and Curt Buckler for a rare performance of songs and satire written and once performed by Europe's cabaret stars imprisoned in Terezín. Theresienstadt, as it was known in Germany, was a model concentration camp 40 miles north of Prague created by the Nazis specifically for prominent Jews and intended to deceive the international press. Among the many Terezín prisoners were Leo Baeck, chief rabbi of Germany; Kurt Gerron, who performed opposite Marlene Dietrich in "The Blue Angel"; musician Karel Ancerl, who survived to become the conductor of the Czech and Toronto Symphonies; Jazz pianist Martin Roman, the leader of the inmate group "The Ghetto Swingers," and many stars of the Czech and Viennese cabaret scene. Although not a death camp, 33,000 out of its 140,000 inmates died there and 87,000 were transported to death camps elsewhere. This performance, followed by a discussion, will offer unique insight into the extraordinary struggle for survival through humor and song. All lyrics translated by Thomas and Caren Neile. Sergei Dreznin, a graduate of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow (as a composer) and the Russian Academy of Music (as a pianist); well-known for his collaboration with violinist Gidon Kremer, his unusual interpretations and new versions of classical piano works, and his own highly original approach to music theater; has produced thirteen shows; Amelia DeMayo and Curt Buckler, performing musical and opera across the US.
Monday, May 24 Reservation Code: 4170 For more information or to register contact Continuing Education & Public Programs, The Graduate Center, CUNY at 212 817-8215 or continuinged@gc.cuny.edu or check http://web.gc.cuny.edu/cepp
Dancing Lessons
Paris Was My Liberation received its first public screening at The Graduate Center, CUNY in October 2003 presented by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center. This new program is presented in cooperation with the 92nd Street Y.
Thursday, June 3, 2004 Code: T-MD5JC01-01 For reservation call: 212-415-5500
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Dario
Fo and The Commedia dell’ Arte 
Stefano
Di Pietro, Gianni Pontillo, and the Absurda Comica theatre company
will offer a workshop and discussion
on Dario Fo’s theatrical techniques and the art of storytelling.
Join them for a rare look into the heart of Commedia dell’Arte
and the unique technique of Italian theatre legend and Nobel Prize-winner
Dario Fo. 
Science & the
Arts 
Romance & Resistance 
The Count of Montmartre 
Dancing Lessons 
Join
the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center and the CUNY Ph.D. Program in
Theatre for a special screening of the highly successful 2002 Israeli
theatre production of perhaps the most important Jewish play: The
Dybbuk
/Between Two Worlds. Directed, choreographed and adapted by Israeli
theatre director and internationally renowned theatre scholar Dr.
Zvika Serper. Adaptation in collaboration with Prof. Carol Fisher
Sorgenfrei, UCLA; with music by Prof. Ofer Ben Amots. Zvika Serper
has used various traditional Japanese aesthetics and techniques
for this stunning production. Distinguished Professor Daniel Gerould,
The Graduate Center, CUNY will welcome Dr. Zvika Serper. Moderator
Samuel L. Leiter, Distinguished Professor, Brooklyn College, CUNY
will introduce the director and his work as well as conduct a Q & A
after screening. The film is two hours in length, in Hebrew with
English subtitles by Prof. Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei. It was previously
screened at the UCLA Contemporary Israeli Theater Conference (2002),
at the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art, as part of the symposium
on Noh and Kyogen (traditional Japanese) theatres (2002), and at
the Writers' Guild Theatre, Beverly Hills (2003), and will also
be screened in September 2003, at the University of Pittsburgh,
as part of the conference on Modern Japanese Theatre.
Science & the
Arts 
The
New Allegory:
Science & the
Arts 
Come
explore the rollicking world of traditional Japanese comedy with
the most exciting young actor in the kyôgen world today.
The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center and the Japan Society are proud
to present Mansai Nomura, scion of the legendary Nomura family
of the traditional Japanese comedy known as kyôgen (“crazy
words”). This special evening will include commentary by experts,
a demonstration performed by Mansai Nomura, and a moderated question
and answer session. The program will preview the Nomura family’s
presentation of celebrated kyôgen plays at the Japan Society
in December with Mansai’s father Mansaku, designated a Living
National Treasure, and Mansai’s 5 year-old son. 
A
play within a play, Tonight We Improvise (first production in 1930)
depicts the experiences of Dr. Hinkfuss, an experimental theatre
director who is thrown out of the theatre during an improvisation when
his will collides with the spontaneous impulses of the actors, who are
immersed in their parts. This metatheatrical piece explores the
frequently contradictory roles played by playwright, text, actor,
character, director, designer and audience within a theatrical event.
George
Bernard Shaw's long life (1856-1950) coincided with an eventful chapter
in the history of medicine, beginning with the creation of the modern
British medical profession through The Medicine Act of 1858 and ending
with its socialization through the National Health Act of 1946. Shaw's
play is a dramatization of the comic and near-tragic aspects of medical
theory and practice during that time. 
Join actress Tovah Feldshuh and members of the
production team for a discussion about the creation of the Broadway
show, "Golda's Balcony," the New York premiere of William Gibson's
one-woman portrait of former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir. The New
York Times says that in her role as Israeli Prime Minister, Tovah
Feldshuh "does more than just resurrect Meir: she embodies an entire
country." A play that tackles head-on the subject of the Arab-Israeli
conflict, "Golda's Balcony" is the story of Israel in the twentieth
century. 
The world's greatest physicist, JW Möbius, is
in a madhouse with two other equally deluded scientists: one who thinks
he's Einstein, and another who thinks he's Newton. With wry, penetrating
humor, Friedrich Dürrenmatt's The Physicists probes beneath the surface
of modern existence to question whether it is the mad who are truly
insane. 
George Bartenieff, one of the stars of the New
York Off-and Off-Off Broadway theatre scene since the early sixties,
will present I Will Bear Witness, one of the most important documents
recording firsthand experience of German fascism. Victor Klemperer
worked as a journalist and Professor of Roman literature in Dresden.
Protected by his non-Jewish wife Eva Schlemmer and his record as a front
line veteran of World-War One, Klemperer began early on to record in his
diary forbidden sentiments of resistance to the totalitarian regime
while keeping a careful record of the new restrictive laws and
prohibitions. His day-by-day account documents the spreading fear and
silencing of dissent in the early Hitler years. Actor George Bartenieff
is recently back from an extensive tour in Germany, where I Will Bear
Witness, Parts One and Two, was met with great acclaim.
This drama, by Queens College professor Ira
Hauptman, presents the relationship between two early 20th-century
mathematicians, the self-educated Indian genius Srinivasa Ramanujan and
Cambridge professor G.H. Hardy. The play relates how these two men,
shaped by different cultures, were both drawn together and destroyed by
mathematics. The play's other characters include a Hindu goddess who
brings Ramanujan equations in his sleep and Pierre de Fermat, a
17th-century French mathematician who bequeaths an unsolvable problem.
In
Terezín there's a little cafe