FringeNYC Previews

CLONE

Produced by ConLab

Author: Christopher Loar

Clone tells the story of a lost and lonely would be writer, John, who decides to clone himself to both escape his solitude and to make time to work on his art. The two hit it off famously, switching off going to work and staying home, until John 2 meets Jennifer, a coworker, and falls in love. John is jealous of John 2 and wants in on the affair, and John 2 uses trickery and deception to keep him away. Clone takes a look at what happens when one man’s relationship and struggles with himself are given life in another person.

Cloning is a very possible technology that will only expand in the next decade. Clone imagines a world not too far off from our own and looks at how this approaching scientific advancement could affect our lives. What happens when new technology hits? How long before it is regulated? What happens if it falls in the wrong hands?

Clone is a great opportunity for CONLAB to share its unique aesthetic as well as for the two actors, who alternate the roles of John and John 2 each night, to push themselves by trying to play “the other.” With design by Bradlee Hicks, who recently completed his MFA in sculpture at Yale, and is currently doing a residency in China, and direction by New York Theater Workshop Emerging Artist fellow Rafael Gallegos, Clone creates a unique, vivid world for the audience to enjoy. CONLAB is an emerging company based in Bushwick that strives to create new, interdisciplinary work. Clone features original music and sound design as well as the incorporation of movement to tell the story.

Christopher Loar, playwright/actor