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Author: Caryl Churchill
First Performance: 2002, London
Published: 2002
Genre: Drama in 5 scenes
Setting: Salter's home, c.2000
Cast: 2m, playing 4m
Salter, in his early sixties, is talking to his son Bernard (B2), 35. He is horrified to learn that his son has been cloned a number of times, and threatens to sue the hospital doctors responsible for damaging Bernard's uniqueness, weakening his identity. However, Bernard is concerned that he is perhaps not the original. Salter admits that when his wife and 4-year-old son died in a car crash, he wanted to replace his son. Salter explains to the original Bernard (B1), who is 40, that he had him cloned but had no idea so many would be created. B2 has met B1, and now tells Salter that he is ‘a nutter’. Salter admits that his wife threw...
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