A Number Reviews
Chicago Reader- Highly Recommended
"...In Domenica Cameron-Scorsese's quietly shattering production for Runcible Theatre Company, Stephen Fedo shows how the father is both well-meaning and cruel, while Owen Hickle-Edwards—doing triple duty as the son, the replacement, and one of the extra clones made without the father’s knowledge—is alternately anguished, menacing, and blithe."
Stage and Cinema- Highly Recommended
"...Belonging, it seems, is highly conditional: It must always be to something or someone or both. Edwards fares well depicting the inchoate anger, fear, blame and yearnings of B1, B2 and Black. Fedo’s father is appropriately torn and twisted as he faces the most complex custody battle ever. A Number makes for fascinating futurism, packaged as a moral dilemma on top of an ethical quandary."
Around The Town Chicago- Highly Recommended
"...All in all, this is the best I have seen of Churchill's play's and I was thrilled that it was so well directed and superbly acted. Though it did not provoke thoughts, at least about the ethics of cloning, it nevertheless registered a devastating emotional impact, almost exclusively through the actor's respectively melancholic and charged performances, that stayed with me long after the play."
Third Coast Review- Highly Recommended
"...Owen Hickle-Edwards and Stephen Fedo perform a very complex dance on stage, the intricate and ever-changing ballet of the parent-child relationship, and it is done with much passion and sincerity. As director Cameron-Scorsese’s first full production with Runcible Theatre Company, it has a sense of completeness and timelessness to it. Perhaps that is due to the sparsity of props (just one chair) on a blank scene (white walls) and with little effects (lights which flicker in and out when a new character is about to be summoned.) Or perhaps it has to do with the bare simplicity of the enduring theme of identity and the struggle for perfection that resonates within all of us."