A Number

The Next continues its acclaimed relationship with Caryl Churchill by producing the hottest play of last season off-Broadway. In sixty-five highly-charged minutes, Caryl Churchill’s A Number tells the story of a father-son conflict so extraordinary it shakes the very foundation of western ideas about the individual. When Bernard confronts his father Salter about the possible existence of “a number” of genetically-identical brothers, Churchill opens a Pandora’s Box of penetrating questions about science and morality, nature versus nurture, and the definition of the word “identity.” Named one of 2004’s Ten Best by The New York Times, A Number confirms Churchill’s position as one of the most important dramatists of our time. BJ Jones directs.