A Number
By Caryl Churchill
Tour Dates
You’ve made a really bad mistake in life. Is it possible to start over? What if you hurt others in the process? And what happens when your actions finally catch up with you?
Salter may be sorry for decisions he has made in his past, but is his remorse enough?
It is Salter’s son, Bernard, who must face the consequences of his father’s devastating decisions when he discovers that he is one of “a number” of Bernards whom his father has had cloned.
Caryl Churchill’s powerfully disturbing drama, winner of the Evening Standard Award for Best Play, considers the damage parents can do to children, explores the question of nature versus nurture and asks whether any of us can truly escape our past.
Tour Dates
29 May 2022
East Kilbride
Please note there is also a 5pm High Tea Performance - see venue for details.
Cast & Creatives
Robin Kingsland
For Rapture: The Browning Version and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Recent Theatre includes: The Effect, Fiddler on the Roof, Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde, and The Cherry Orchard.
Theatre includes: Storm (Jermyn Street Theatre, London); Private Lives (Mercury Theatre; Colchester); Romeo & Juliet (Sheffield Crucible); Arcadia (Nottingham Playhouse); Hamlet (Secret Theatre; Edinburgh Fringe Festival); The Other Place (RADA); Witness for the Prosecution (Vienna English Theatre); Engaging Shaw (Vienna English Theatre); League of Youth, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Uri, Garage Band, The Price by Arthur Miller, I Have Been Here Before, Rat Pack Confidential, The Secret Garden (Nottingham Playhouse); Inherited Risk Factors (Writebites New Writing Festival); The “Lost Shakespeare” (Croydon Warehouse); Dick Barton and The Quantum of Porridge (Croydon Warehouse); On The Waterfront (Hong Kong Festival/Nottingham Playhouse/Edinburgh Fringe Festival); Century Plays (Worcester Swan Theatre); Shakespeare and His World (Southwark Literary Festival); The Light and the Dark (Southwark Literary Festival); Lady Windermere’s Fan (Ipswich Wolsey Theatre); Blood Brothers (Bill Kenwright Ltd); Rookery Nook, The Return of the Naïve, She Stoops To Conquer (Colchester Mercury Theatre); Speed The Plow, The Secret Rapture (Royal National Theatre); The Cabinet Minister (Duncan C Weldon Productions Ltd) and High Society (Noel Gray Ltd).
Television and Film credits include: Chameleon (October Films); Dance of a Killer (October Films)l The Sparticles Mystery (CBBC); The Bill (Pearson Thames) and Call the Midwife, Casualty (BBC).
Audio Work Includes: Deceit of Angels (BBC R4) and Animal Ark and Enid Blyton Mysteries (Hodder Audio Books).
Paul Albertson
After graduating from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Paul became a leading actor for the Glasgow Citizens Theatre over a period of ten years, playing such roles as Jimmy Porter, Jean in Miss Julie, Lenny in the Homecoming, Nero in Britannicus and Joey in Pal Joey.
For Rapture: The Browning Version, Betrayal and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Other theatre roles include: Beauty Smith in White Fang, Bert Barricune in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Both at the Park Theatre); Don Antonio in The Rover (Hampton Court); Phil in The People Next Door (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Baz in Damages (The Bush Theatre); Carl in Carver (The Arcola) and Daniel in The Little Pony (Cervantes Theatre).
Recent Screen work include Extras with Ricky Gervais, Sherlock, Love Soup, Holby City, Heartbeat, Coronation Street, All at Sea and feature films The Honourable Rebel, Excalibur Rising, The Great Director and Radioactive.
He is also a voice actor and recently won Best Male Performance in a Radio Drama at the 2018 One Voice Awards.
Lyn McAndrew
Trained: Edinburgh University, Strathclyde University
For Rapture Theatre as designer: Macbeth, Perfect Days, Assassins, Insignificance, Simpatico, Old Neighborhood, Richard III, Boston Marriage, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Proof, Misery, Blue/Orange, Damages,The Collection, Broken Glass, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Hamlet, Gagarin Way and The Sash.
Frances Collier
Frances Collier is a Glasgow based Theatre and Film designer. She graduated from Birmingham City University in 2008 with a 1st class BA Hons Degree in Theatre Design and the Live Nation Event Design Student of the Year Award. As a new graduate she worked for the Birmingham Opera Company on both Idomeneo, and Othello, as well as for the Birmingham School of Acting.
For Rapture: The Red Lion and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Other Theatre: Arches:LIVE - RISK, Techfest Aberdeen, the Aberdeen Students Show - Mary Torphins, Sleepless in Seaton, Acorn Theatre - Animal Farm, Theatre Modo - Pandemonium Pirate Parade (Peterhead), Live Wire Productions (various), and GlasGAY - Lady Fingers and Empire Biscuits. Her design work for Pitlochry Festival Theatre includes Rope, Communicating Doors, A Chorus of Disapproval, Present Laughter, Perfect Days, The Yellow on the Broom, Improbable Fiction, and Pyrenees.
Film: production design on Isabel’s Last Day, and GlaswAsian Tales, costume design for Writers Block, The Quiet, the feature film SOLIS, and Whistle My Lad, for which she was nominated for the BAFTA Scotland New Talent Design Award.
She designed Stafford Festival Shakespeare’s 2016 production of Othello and The Tempest.
Show Notes
Show Information
1 hour
12+
Please see venue website for further details