A Number By Caryl Churchill Houston Premiere Directed by Andrew Ruthven
and
Machinal By Sophie Treadwell Directed by Troy Scheid
Main Street Theater - Rice Village
2540 Times Blvd.
Previews
February 13, 14 and 17, 2010
Performances
February 18 - March 14, 2010
Call 713-524-6706 for Tickets For groups of 10 or more, please call Andrew Ruthven, Director of Audience Services, at
713-524-3622 x102
About A Number
Caryl Churchill’s startling one-act A Number examines the emotional repercussions of human cloning and explores the nature of the father-son relationship. Salter has three sons. His wife gave birth to the eldest. A lab created the second. The third he didn’t even know existed. Forced to explain and try to make sense of his decisions, Salter stares into the accusing faces of his own flesh and blood who confront him with the fact that each is merely one of "a number."
The play premiered in 2002 at the Royal Court Theatre in London with Michael Gambon and Daniel Craig.
About Machinal
Machinal is a tragedy of isolation turned to murder, loosely based on the sensational 1927 murder trial of Ruth Snyder, who received the electric chair for killing her husband. Snyder was the second woman ever to be electrocuted, and reporter and witness to the execution Thomas Howard snuck a camera into the chamber and photographed the moment of death. The published photograph caused a sensation, and Treadwell used the case as a springboard for her own speculations about what circumstances might drive a seemingly harmless stenographer to commit murder.
Machinal was first produced in 1928. It premiered on Broadway with Clark Gable as the lover. The production was a critical success and ran for 91 performances.
Rated PG-13 – Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.
Children under the age of 5 are not allowed in the theater.
