In the past couple of decades, Caryl Churchill has perfected the oblique and concentrated one-act play, somehow providing the intellectual challenge and emotional punch of the best of full-length plays in less than an hour. Examples include Escaped Alone (55 minutes), a cutting examination of people maintaining "normality" as the world unravels; A Number (60 minutes), which considers cloning from a clone…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 04:32AM on October 28, 2020