{"id":416,"date":"2011-08-21T17:42:21","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T22:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vandfam.net\/dev\/wordpressmu\/college\/?p=416"},"modified":"2011-08-21T17:42:21","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T22:42:21","slug":"playmakers-prc2-series-opens-with-a-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=416","title":{"rendered":"PlayMakers PRC2 series opens with \u2018A Number\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>PlayMakers Repertory Company\u2019s PRC 2 second-stage series will open its fifth season with playwright Caryl Churchill\u2019s intensely charged family drama with a twist, \u201cA Number,\u201d Sept. 7-11.<\/p>\n<p>PlayMakers, the professional theater company in residence in UNC\u2019s College of Arts and Sciences, also has announced that \u201cThe Amish Project\u201d has joined the PRC2 lineup, to run Jan. 11-15. Written and performed by Jessica Dickey, the play will be directed by Sarah Cameron Sunde.<\/p>\n<p>Both plays will be in the Elizabeth Price Kenan Theatre in the Center for Dramatic Art on Country Club Road. PRC2 combines a topical production with audience discussions with the creative artists and other panelists after each performance.<\/p>\n<p>In \u201cA Number,\u201d Churchill takes the age-old scenario of confrontation between father and son and turns it inside out. She explores issues of human identity and parental responsibility, tackling the nature-versus-nurture debate head on. In this family, the sons are actually clones of the father\u2019s real son. Variables mount, guilt surfaces, lies are exposed and consequences cannot be denied as startling facts are revealed.<\/p>\n<p>PlayMakers\u2019 production will feature longtime company actor Ray Dooley as the father. Dooley also is a dramatic art professor and head of the professional actor training program at UNC. New York-based actor Josh Barrett will play the sons.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post said \u201cA Number\u201d is \u201cfiendishly clever,\u201d and The Telegraph of London called it \u201cintellectually and morally profound.\u201d The Internet magazine Theatreworld said it is \u201ca play that you will want to discuss and debate long after you have left the theatre.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Number\u201d will be performed at 7:30 p.m. nightly and 2 p.m. Sept. 11.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018A Number\u2019 works like a detective novel,\u201d said PlayMakers associate artistic director Jeff Meanza. \u201cFull of questions and sharp dramatic twists, the play is perfectly suited to the PRC2 format.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Amish Project\u201d is a fictionalized account of the 2006 Nickel Mines schoolhouse shooting in Pennsylvania Amish country.\u00a0Five girls were killed in a hostage-taking incident, the kind all too often played out in today\u2019s society from Columbine to this summer\u2019s tragedy in Norway.<\/p>\n<p>Told through the voices of seven characters, including the gunman and two of his victims, Dickey\u2019s performance links their lives together through back stories and side dramas, ultimately framing this devastating tale into an exploration of compassion and forgiveness.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times proclaimed \u201cThe Amish Project\u201d \u201can extraordinary performance \u2026 a remarkable piece of writing.\u201d Time Out New York\u2019s reviewer wrote, \u201c[Dickey\u2019s] craft made me weep. The virtuosic writer-performer acts her bonnet off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Amish Project\u201d rounds out the 2011-2012 PRC2 season, which also includes the world premiere of \u201cPenelope,\u201d written and performed by Ellen McLaughlin, with live music composed by Sarah Kirkland Snider (April 25-29).<\/p>\n<p>PlayMakers\u2019 new main-stage season opens with Sarah Ruhl\u2019s Tony Award-nominated comedy \u201cIn the Next Room (or the vibrator play)\u201d Sept. 21-Oct. 9.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for \u201cA Number\u201d are available as part of PlayMakers\u2019 2011-2012 season subscription packages, or for $10-$35 for individual PRC2 shows. They may be purchased at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playmakersrep.org\/\">www.playmakersrep.org<\/a> or by calling (919) 962-PLAY (7529).<\/p>\n<p>New York\u2019s Drama League has named PlayMakers one of the \u201cbest regional theatres in America.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PlayMakers Repertory Company\u2019s PRC 2 second-stage series will open its fifth season with playwright Caryl Churchill\u2019s intensely charged family drama with a twist, \u201cA Number,\u201d Sept. 7-11. 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