But director Polly Findlay’s entirely fresh take for the Bridge Theatre is the most literal I have yet seen, and also the most lacerating: this Number may not have family on its side, but it certainly ...

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A Number tells of a widower called Salter (Roger Allam) and three of what – thanks to the vagaries of cloning – are an array of his children, each of whom is played with quiet bravura by Colin Morgan.