Pi Theatre presents a refreshed remount of Peter Dickinson’s otherworldly and resonant Long Division, April 26 – 30, 2017 at the Annex Theatre (823 Seymour Street). Directed by Richard Wolfe, with choreography by Lesley Telford and musical score by Owen Belton, the intellectually-charged, emotionally-gripping work combines multimedia and physical theatre to explore the mathematics of human connection.
“Math is a secret language hidden in plain sight. So much of what we see in the world around us - traffic patterns, the growth of plants, our ubiquitous mobile devices – are governed by logic and patterns that can be expressed purely in numbers,” says Pi Theatre Artistic Director Richard Wolfe. “In this remarkable play, Peter exploits this phenomenon and takes it a step deeper – using mathematics to chart the connection between disparate humans. It is a thrilling accomplishment whose end result wrenches your heart and sets your mind racing in equal measure.”
Long Division’s story revolves around seven characters who are traveling to a downtown bar on the occasion of a complicated anniversary. The ensemble represents a diverse and discordant group, including a high school math teacher, a soccer-loving Imam, a lesbian bar owner, an aspiring actress, and a single-mother working in the corporate world, among others. Despite their eclectic backgrounds, the Venn Diagram of their lives overlap in a singular, unresolved traumatic event that binds their pasts together.
Through excursions into number theory, geometry, and logic, the players struggle to delineate their evocative, elusive patterns of entanglement, but find that one emotional variable consistently remains unsolved.
Pi Theatre presents Long Division
Dates: April 26 – 30, 2017
Preview: April 26 at 8pm
Opening Night: April 27 at 8pm
Evening Performances: April 27–29 at 8pm
Matinees: April 29–30th at 2pm
Ticket prices: $25 Matinees
$30 General Admission
Address: 823 Seymour Street, Vancouver, BC
Box Office: pitheatre.com/tickets
