Contact: Jon L. Egging, Marketing Director, (603) 924-9344, jlegging@peterboroughplayers.org

The Peterborough Players tackle the Off-Broadway hit, A Number, to close the season. It opens September 7 and runs to Sept 18. Caryl Churchill's magnificent new play is short, but contains more drama, and more ideas, than most writers manage in a dozen full-length works. Part psychological thriller, part topical scientific speculation, and part analysis of the relationship between fathers and their sons, it combines elegant structural simplicity with an astonishing intellectual and emotional depth. Add stunning performances from Artistic Director Gus Kaikkonen and Players favorite Todd Almond, and you have one of the most spell-binding - and challenging - theatrical events of the season.

It is being directed by Managing Director Keith Stevens with Meagan Becker doing costumes, Lyn Tamm designing the sets, and Junko Yamada doing the lights.

Performance times are: 8:00 p.m., Tuesday -Saturday; with matinees at 4 p.m. on Sundays.

The Peterborough Players is sponsored in part by the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Hampshire Humanities Council, the A. Erland and Hazel M. Goyette Memorial Fund, and the Grimshaw-Gudewicz Charitable Foundation. The 2005 Media Sponsor is the Keene Sentinel.

Season subscriptions are now on sale at the Players Box Office. For reservations and further information, call (603) 924-7585, or visit the Peterborough Players web site at www.peterboroughplayers.org.

A Number is rated “PG-13”