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Catch 22, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating: * * *

Cast: Daniel Ainsworth, Philip Arditti, Geoff Arnold, Victoria Bewick, Simon Darwen, Michael Hodgson, Liz Kettle, Christopher Price, David Webber.

Joseph Heller adapted his novel Catch 22 for the stage in 1971 and today the script is more or less unchanged. As it is difficult to get the rights to adapt the script, Northern Stage’s director Rachel Chavkin has done what other companies have shied away from, and has put her own mark on this classic war tale.

Catch 22, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool. full post

(349 words, estimated 1:24 mins reading time)

Joseph Heller’s Seminal Classic Catch 22 To Come To The Playhouse Theatre.

For the first time in the U.K., Joseph Heller’s seminal World War II novel Catch-22 comes to the stage. Explosive, subversive, wild and funny, after 50 years the strength of Heller’s story is undiminished, and his own adaptation is brought to the Liverpool Playhouse by Northern Stage from Tuesday 27th to Saturday 31st May.

Set in the closing months of World War II, a bombardier named Yossarian is trapped in the absurd world of an inescapable war. Frantic and furious as thousands of people he has never met try to kill him, Yossarian is stalked and thwarted by the merciless Catch-22.

Joseph Heller’s Seminal Classic Catch 22 To Come To The Playhouse Theatre. full post

(337 words, estimated 1:21 mins reading time)