NUFFIELD’S hit production of A Number returns to Southampton next week following a near sell-out run at the Young Vic in London.

This production of A Number was first seen at Nuffield in February 2014. It transferred to the Young Vic in July 2015, where it played to packed houses over a six-week run. The production received seven 4-star reviews in the national press, including The Guardian, The Times, The Telegraph, The Financial Times, and The Evening Standard.

A Number will return to Nuffield with its original cast of real-life father and son John and Lex Shrapnel. Created by Nuffield Associates Michael Longhurst and Tom Scutt – the team behind the four-time Olivier Award-nominated Constellations – A Number features ingenious staging that places the cast inside a mirrored cube with the audience seated on-stage around the action, offering a unique experience of the play.

Leading British playwright Caryl Churchill’s play poses questions of a complex scientific debate, not least the moral and human dilemmas when experimentation gets out of control. Churchill pushes the boundaries of scientific possibility to put an astonishing twist on parental guilt and sibling rivalry, on the nature/nurture debate, and even the idea of free will.

A Number will run at Nuffield from Wednesday August 19 – Saturday August 29.

Tickets: £18.00, £15.00 concessions

*Nuffield is Southampton’s leading professional theatre company based at the Nuffield Theatre at the heart of the Highfield campus of the University of Southampton. Nuffield celebrated its 50th birthday in 2014.

Nuffield won ‘Regional Theatre of the Year’ at The Stage Awards 2015.

The Company is led by Samuel Hodges, supported by a team of associates: directors Blanche McIntyre, Natalie Abrahami and Michael Longhurst, designer Tom Scutt and playwright Adam Brace, and develops and produces work with some of the UK’s most exciting and dynamic regional theatres, including Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse and Royal & Derngate, Northampton.

In March 2015, Nuffield announced that they will be the operating company of the North Building in Southampton’s new £22 million arts venue, whilst continuing to run their current space on the Highfield campus of the University of Southampton. The new building will include a flexible 447 seat main house theatre, a 135 seat studio, screening facilities, rehearsal and workshop spaces, and a café bar and bistro.