UK-based theatre person and educator Victoria Gould is inu00a0the cityu00a0to conduct workshops that bring together two unlikely bedfellows: Maths and drama.u00a0FYI finds out how she hopes to pull it off

Victoria Gould holds a Masters in Applicable Mathematics. Her thesis was on the use of fractals in generating natural looking landscapes in computer imaging.
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Phew! She is also a freelance actor and director, best known for her role as journalist Polly in the BBC soap EastEnders.

Victoria Gould with participants of the Maths-Drama workshop.

She knows her background seems intimidating to most, but over time, she has learnt how to balance her love for numbers with that for theatre.
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This week, her passions converge as theatre group Complicit ufffd's A Disappearing Number will be staged in the city, and a series of Maths and Drama Workshops are scheduled for students and teachers.
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FYI caught up with the actor-educator.

How do you achieve a balance between theatre and mathematics?
I have to keep doing some maths and some theatre. If I do too much of one or the other, I get frustrated. I love theatre and I've worked with mathematical research all my life. Complicit ufffd is the first company that has allowed both my passions to come together. I've worked with them on two productions: The Elephant Vanishes had some scientific ideas. While working on that play I realised that it was okay to bring maths into theatre. Then they suggested we work on A Disappearing Number. And I've also been holding math-drama workshops with teachers and children, on the side.