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A Number

By W.A.S. Productions

Written by Caryl Churchill

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3 identical sons (Clarence Wethern) confront the sins of their father (Gabriele Angieri) in Caryl Churchill’s thrilling, darkly funny sci-fi psychodrama about the high cost of starting over.
Adult language,Mental illness,Suicidal ideation/self-harm
The creators say this show is appropriate for ages 12-15 and up
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Caryl Churchill
Playwright

Bio from Concord Theatricals:

Caryl Churchill was born on 3 September 1938 in London and grew up in the Lake District and in Montreal. She was educated at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Downstairs, her first play written while she was still at university, was first staged in 1958 and won an award at the Sunday Times National Union of Students Drama Festival.

Caryl Churchill’s plays include: Owners, Traps, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, Cloud 9, Top Girls, Fen, Serious Money, Ice Cream, Mad Forest, The Skriker, Blue Heart, This is a Chair, Far Away, A Number, Drunk Enough To Say I Love You?, Seven Jewish Children, Love & Information, Here We Go, and Escaped Alone. Music theatre includes Lives of the Great Poisoners and Hotel, both with Orlando Gough. Caryl has also written for radio and television.

Matt Sciple
Director

Since moving to Minneapolis from Louisiana in 1990, Matt has directed, performed in, or written, over 150 plays for theaters across Minnesota, including The Minnesota Opera, Park Square Theater, Gremlin Theater, Macalester College (where he also taught Acting as an adjunct professor,) Hamline University, STAGES Theater (where he has taught Shakespeare, acting and devised theater), and Bald Alice Theatre (which he co-founded). Matt's favorite audiences, though, were found in prisons, homeless shelters, and chemical dependency centers, touring with Ten Thousand Things, for whom he directed WAITING FOR GODOT and played 30 roles in 12 plays, including Tateh in RAGTIME and Edgar in KING LEAR. He has been working as a Teaching Artist with Upstream Arts since its inception in 2006 and seasonally blowing things up as Hans Gruber in A VERY DIE HARD XMAS.

Gabriele Angieri
Salter

Gabriele Angieri is a veteran Twin Cities actor who has worked in leading stage roles at Park Square Theatre - The  Last Seder, King Lear, Behind the Eye, Frank Theatre - By the Bog of Cats (Guthrie Lab), Love and Information, Illusion Theatre - Dating  Your Mom, Prime Productions - For Peter Pan on his 70th Birthday,  Open Window Theatre - A Man for All Seasons, Nimbus Theatre - Death & the Maiden, The Playwrights Center - Flesh & the Desert, Mixed Blood Theatre - The Viking and the Gazelle, BCT - Twelve Angry Men, Six Points Theatre - Our Class, Theatre in the Round - Simpatico and in a east coast regional tour, playing the title role in Tuesdays with Morrie.   Film credits include starring in the independent film Profile of a Killer, which was distributed internationally, and the locally produced Twin Cities (playing costar Clarence Wethern's father), Incompleteness, and Theater People.  Gabriele's next, this October, playing the patriarch of an Italian-American family in Sidekick Theatre's production of the comedy Over the River and Through the Woods. This is Gabriele's first Fringe appearance.

Gabriele is a proud member of Actors Equity Association.

Clarence Wethern
B2, B1, Michael Black

Clarence Wethern, once dubbed an "Artist We Love" by Minnesota Monthly magazine, has worked in theatre, film, commercials, and voice over in Minnesota since relocating from his hometown of New Orleans in 2005. He is returning to the Minnesota Fringe Festival for the first time since 2019's Visitation. Prior MN Fringe credits include Tedious Brief's Mead Hall (2016) and Bard Fiction (2009), Ari Hoptman's The Consolation (2015) and Tales...of the Expected! (2009), Brad Erickson's Hamluke (2011), and Ghoulish Delights' The Tourist Trap (2014), among others.

Outside of the Fringe, Clarence has performed with companies throughout the Twin Cities, with notable credits including Hamlet (Theatre in the Round, also directed by A Number director Matt Sciple), The Pride (Pillsbury House), Death Tax (Pillsbury House), Killer Joe (Theatre Pro Rata), Some Girl(s) (Walking Shadow), Complicated Fun (The History Theatre), 800 Words: The Transmigration of Philip K. Dick (Workhaus Collective), and many, many more.

He previously co-starred with Gabriele Angieri as father and son in the locally produced independent film Twin Cities (2015) and more recently received acclaim for his role in the series Incompleteness (also co-starring Angieri), which has won over 50 "best of" awards at film festivals around the world.

Clarence is a member of Actors' Equity Association.

Clementina Angieri
Production Assistant

Clementina Angieri is going into her sophmore year of high school and participates on the track and field team, speech and debate team, and plays various musical instruments in band. This is her first time working on a professional theatre production, and she is very eager to learn more about the mechanics that go into making shows like this one possible.

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Pictured: Clarence Wethern, Gabriele Angieri; Photo by Matt Sciple

A widower (Gabriele Angieri*) must reap what he has sown when three identical offspring (Clarence Wethern*) confront the sins of their father in Caryl Churchill's taut sci-fi psychodrama about what makes us who we are, the perils of progress, and the high cost of starting over.

First produced in 2002, just six short years after the successful cloning of Dolly the sheep, A Number remains at least as relevant and powerful today, having "deepened and become richer with age and the passage of time, a devastating drama about paternal neglect delivered as speculative fiction" (Andrzej Lukowski, Time Out, 2022).

Having appeared together as father and son in the Minnesota-made film Twin Cities (2015), local theatre veterans Angieri and Wethern reunite under Matt Sciple's dynamic and astute direction in this lean, surprising, thought-provoking, and darkly humorous two-man, four-character show.

A Number is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com

* Member of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. This production is being presented under the auspices of the Actors’ Equity Association Fringe Festival Code.

Show/postcard image: Clarence Wethern, age 4; Photo by Clarence Wethern, III

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