{"product_id":"books-a-number-by-caryl-churchill","title":"A Number","description":"Caryl Churchill, hailed by Tony Kushner as the greatest living English language playwright, has turned her extraordinary dramatic gifts to the subject of human cloning--how might a man feel to discover that he is only one in a number of identical copies. And which one of him is the original. . . ? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChurchill's harrowing bioethics fable leaves us with a number of things to chew on. -Kris Vire, \u003ci\u003eTime Out Chicago\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Number\u003c\/i\u003e confirms Churchill's status as the first dramatist of the 21st century. On the face of it, it is human cloning. Like all Churchill's best plays, \u003ci\u003eA Number deals\u003c\/i\u003e with both the essentials and the extremities of human experience. The questions this brilliant, harrowing play asks are almost unanswerable, which is why they must be asked. -\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCaryl Churchill's magnificent new play only last an hour but contains more drama, and more ideas, than most writers manage in a dozen full-length works. -\u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCaryl Churchill\u003c\/b\u003e has written for the stage, television and radio. A renowned and prolific playwright, her plays include\u003ci\u003e Cloud Nine, Top Girls, Far Away, Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?, Bliss, Love and Information, Mad Forest\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Number\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2002, she received the Obie Lifetime Achievement Award and 2010, she was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53671526596881,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781559362252.jpg?v=1781516420","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-a-number-by-caryl-churchill","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}