"A Number" - A Preview

We blogged the NY premier of this great new play about cloning. Now Religion and News Weekly reports on it, including an interview with Caplan and others who had a chance to see the press-night preview. [Link]

At Last the Cloning Play: A Number

The New York Times discusses the soon-to-open-in-New-York play A Number, in which cloning is a critical thread. In focus is the playright and her fascinating and somewhat apolitical approach to the subject matter. We cannot wait to see this play. Tickets are not on sale at the New York Theater Worshop, which doesn't appear though to sell them online.

A Venter and Collins...PLAY

NPR did a story yesterday on a new play about Venter and Collins: "The Sequence." Seems kind of interesting; they made a specific note that the playwright really incorporates technical science into the play rather than glossing over the actual specifics. Evidently, the actor playing Venter actually explains the shotgun sequencing technique. The play is in LA (in readings). - Art Caplan

Virginia Tech: "A Number": A Play about Human Cloning

A new play by Caryl Churchill that "dramatizes our anxieties about our individuality and identity that are stirred up by the looming possibility of cloning" will be premiered at a VT conference about human cloning on 10/28.