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A NUMBER by Caryl Churchill

"Magnificent... Contains more drama, and more ideas, than most manage in a dozen full-length works.... It combines elegant structural simplicity with an astonishing intellectual and emotional depth... What a tremendous play this is, moving, thought-provoking and dramatically thrilling." - Daily Telegraph

Maine Premiere
A NUMBER
by Caryl Churchill
directed by Daniel Burson
with Corey M. Gagne and Charles Michael Howard*

The influential and seminal Caryl Churchill has been hailed by Tony Kushner (Angels In America) as ";the greatest living English language playwright."; Here she focuses her extraordinary dramatic gifts on the subject of human cloning. A father is confronted by his son, but it becomes clear it is not really his son, or at least not the original version. How might a man feel to discover that he is but one in a number of identical copies - and how exactly do you determine which one of him is the original??

"Churchill's power to grip an audience is an extraordinary thing. Her plays perform a pincer-movement on your attention. Their ear for a subject of real concern ... has always been acute, and often prescient." - Observer