Article: Public Theater production raises cloning issues

Director Jesse Berger and actors Craig Baldwin and Sam Tsoutsouvas are embarking on a great adventure.

Pittsburgh Public Theater audiences will know it as Caryl Churchill's play, "A Number," which begins previews tonight at the O'Reilly Theater, Downtown.

"Any opportunity to work on a play as endlessly fascinating as this is to be jumped at. She is one of the greatest playwrights," Berger says.

Written by the woman who created "Top Girls," "Cloud Nine," "Vinegar Tom" and "Mad Forest," Churchill's "A Number" explores big questions about cloning, individuality, family relationships and the conflicting influences of nature and nurture in a drama about a father and three of his sons.

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