A Number
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Opened Mar 12, 2011
Closed Apr 3, 2011
Opened Mar 12, 2011
Closed Apr 3, 2011
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In A Number, Caryl Churchill explores the human experience, the essence of personality, and nature versus nurture as a man confronts his father after discovering that he has several siblings - each one of his clones.
Since the arrival of Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be cloned, in the late-90s, the possibility of human cloning has sparked controversy. In recent years, with advances in genetic engineering, the practical and ethical issues regarding cloning continue to make headlines and incite lively debate. "We've got ninety-nine percent the same genes as any other person. We've got ninety per cent as a chimpanzee. We've got thirty percent the same as lettuce," says Michael Black in A Number. "Does that cheer you up at all? It makes me feel I belong."
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The nature versus nurture debate gets a sci-fi twist in Caryl Churchill's A Number, being given a strong revival by the National Asian American Theatre Company (NAATCO), at the Cherry Lane Studio Theatre. The premise of the work is that a man named Bernard (Joel de la Fuente) was cloned at a young age without his knowledge or consent, and "a number" of genetically identical copies were made and have grown up, with all of them unaware that they were not the "original."
As the play opens, one of these men confronts his father, Salter (James Saito), after finding out about the cloning, and wanting to understand how this could have happened -- as well as his father's complicity in the process[...]