A Number
by Caryl Churchill

A Mid-Hudson Valley Premiere

ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY!
Saturday. February 11, 2006
8 PM
Unison Arts and Learning Center in New Paltz
Admission: $11 - Unison members and $15 non-members
Call 255-1559 for reservations
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Caryl Churchill, author of Top Girls and Cloud 9, and one of the most original writers in theatre today, explores what constitutes a person's essence against the unsettling backdrop of cloning and genetic engineering. A father is confronted with a number of his sons, all genetically identical, yet not the same person. How does a copy become unique? The play turns the familiar father-son drama on its head as the sons struggle to find their identity not only in their father's gaze but in their all-too-human reflections.

Directed by MMSC's Christine Crawfis, A Number stars Bruce Pileggi and Jack Kroll. Don't miss it.

"A Number confirms Churchill's status as the first dramatist of the 21st century. On the face of it, it is about human cloning...Like all Churchill's best plays, A Number deals with both the esstentials and the extremities of human experience...The questions this brilliant, harrowing play asks are almost unanswerable, which is why they must be asked. Sunday Times
	"Caryl Churchill's magnificent new play only lasts an hour but contains more drama, and more ideas, than most writers manage in a dozen full-length works." Daily Telegraph
"Caryl Churchill never stands still. The question she asks in this play is from what the essential core of self derives: from nature or nurture, genetic inheritance or environmental circumstance?" Guardian

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