A Number
December, 2006
By Caryl Churchill
Directed by Chris McCoy
A production of the Barn Alternative Series
Caryl Churchill's A NUMBER, is a quietly disturbing work about, among other weighty matters, a severely dysfunctional parent-child relationship. The play deals with the effect of cloning on a father and his genetically identical, multiple children (all played by the same actor). We see a bare world in which an older, selfish generation (represented by the father) seeks exoneration for parental neglect by re-making a younger generation of sons to fulfill its disappointed ambitions and dreams. Through a series of intensely charged scenes, Churchill diagrams the meltdown of a new world order.
Dramatis Personae
Peter Hendrixson as Salter
Erik Johnson as Bernard 1 & 2 & Michael Black
Production Staff
Directed by Chris McCoy
Stage Manager D. K. Evenson
Production Stage Manager Kristina Banton
Set and Light Design by Skip Gordon
Sound Design by Chris McCoy
