Read Dan Skora’s review of Theatre Nova’s “Irrational,” for It’s All Theatre
On the surface, it would seem that the current presentation of Ann Arbor’s Theatre Nova might be targeting only a multi-degreed cliental. The list of characters- Hippasus, Damascus, Eloris, Theodousa, and Pythagoras – reads like the cast of a Greek tragedy.
“Pythagorus? The math guy?”
Yep, that’s him. But here, in “Irrational – The Newest ‘Cult’ Musical” by David Wells and R. MacKenzie Lewis, he’s gone screwy with his math and is passing off the square root of 2 as a rational number.