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Article: Public Theater production raises cloning issues
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- March 6, 2008
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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.
Set in the ...