A Number (NHB Modern Plays)

by Caryl Churchill (Author)

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  2004

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  With her finger as always on the pulse of our deepest concerns, in A Number , Caryl Churchill turns her extraordinary dramatic gifts to the subject of human cloning - how might a son feel to discover that he is only one of a number of identical copies. And how would the father feel confronted by these reproachful clones ...? First staged in 2002 to huge acclaim at the Royal Court Theatre, London, with Michael Gambon as the father and Daniel Craig as the sons, A Number is revived at Sheffield in October 2006 with real-life father and son, Timothy and Samuel West, playing the leads.

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  2002

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  The perfect combination: a new play by Caryl Churchill - directed by Stephen Daldry - at the Royal Court With her finger as always on the pulse of our deepest concerns, Churchill turns her extraordinary dramatic gifts to the subject of human cloning - how might a man feel to discover that he is only one in a number of identical copies. And which one of him is the original...? A Number opens the Royal Court's autumn season, directed by her regular collaborator, Stephen (Billy Elliott) Daldry, now a star in his own right. Press reaction to their last production, Far Away, which transferred to the West End after a sell-out run at the Royal Court:

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  2003

  $14.66