by Caryl Churchill

June 15-24, 2006 at Gabriel's Corner

Featuring CEA Hall of Fame member Michael Burnham and CEA Nominee Anthony Darnell (NSC's Kimberly Akimbo)

Directed by Andrew Lazarow

Your father has kept a secret from you your whole life: as a small child you were cloned. This is the news one man must face in Caryl Churchill’s explosive new drama. As Bernard confronts his father and his new “brothers,” he sets off a chain of events that forces him to stare down an unsettling question of what it really means to be human. Challenging the limits of modern science and the bonds that hold families together, A Number is stark, startling, funny, and deeply moving.  NSC’s regional premiere production, under the direction of Andrew Lazarow, stars Cincinnati Entertainment Award Hall of Fame member Michael Burnham.

Named “One of 2004’s Ten Best”

-The New York Times

“One of the most spell-binding - and challenging - theatrical events of the year... What makes this play so special is that ideas of the cutting edge of scientific experiment and philosophical inquiry are turned into gripping, at times emotionally shattering, drama."

-The London Daily Telegraph