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Number
Caryl Churchill
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Description for Number
Paperback. Deals with 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? Num Pages: 62 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 6. Weight in Grams: 84.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781854597434
SKU
V9781854597434
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Ref
99-3
About Caryl Churchill
Caryl Churchill is probably the most respected woman dramatist in the English-speaking world. She is the author of some twenty plays including Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, Cloud Nine, Top Girls, Serious Money, The Skriker, Blue Heart, Far Away and A Number - seen and admired all over the world. Most are published by NHB.
Reviews for Number
'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 essentials 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 ... Read more