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playmakers repertory company (prc2), sept 6-11, 2011

churchill takes the age-old scenario of confrontation between a father and son and turns it inside out to explore 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’s “original” son. variables mount, guilt surfaces, lies are exposed and consequences cannot be denied as the startling facts are revealed.  staged in a highly compressed space that broke the fourth wall and jutted out into the first row of the audience.

photos: andrea akin / jan chambers