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Writers Theatre strips down A Number to its absorbing essentials by Jack Helbig

Robin Witt's production takes a somber tone, downplaying the comic turns. Logging in at a little more than an hour, Writers Theatre's production of Caryl Churchill's 2002 two-hander is a brief and thought-provoking meditation on human character and identity. Set in the near future, at a time when the cloning of human beings is medically possible though not yet socially accepted, the play …

SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AM on April 3, 2019

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