Reviews

Fermat's Last Tango has received several reviews on its travels across the world. Some of these are listed here, and in the lower half of the page are reviews from the public. If you have seen Fermat's Tango, then why not add your thoughts?

The musical is cheerful, clever, and entertaining. Its varied music is engaging. It puts mathematics on display as an intensely human endeavour. For anyone familiar with the subject, it's also fun to listen for the numerous mathematical and historical references that lace the lyrics. Indeed, the mathematical vocabulary, even in passing, is surprisingly sophisticated. Imagine a song in which you hear the words "Taniyama-Shimura conjecture" not just once but several times!”
 
To read the Science Online Review in full, click here.

Review by CurtainUp.com:

“In the new music/new musical tradition, Fermat's Last Tango is almost entirely sung-through and some of the music, especially at the beginning, is operatic in flavour. This said, it is very much a fun show. The lyrics are catchy without unduly forced rhymes, and many of the twenty songs are melodic and work well with Janet Watson's musical staging. If you don't expect a lot of production bells and whistles, and a score and lyrics that will restore the musical genre to its heyday, you could do a lot worse than this musicalized, fictionalized version of a fascinating event.”

To read the CurtainUp review in full, click here.

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