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The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
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Author: Herman Wouk Publisher: Samuel French (cover image may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 102 Pub. Date: 2011 ISBN-10: 0573606684 ISBN-13: 9780573606687 Cast Size: 19 male
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About
the Play:
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
has long been a favourite of acting teachers for Male/Male Scenes.
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial is a full-length drama by
Herman Wouk. The Pulitzer
Prize-winning novel about a court martial has been adapted by the
author into suspenseful evening of theatre. The Caine
Mutiny Court-Martial is a
fictitious account of the mutinous acts aboard a ship that is rocked
by a typhoon during WWII, the play is a pungent and timely look at
the "my country right or wrong" standard of military life.
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
is a the brilliant courtroom drama of a naval lieutenant on trial for
mutiny in wartime by Herman Wouk,
based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. A young lieutenant has
relieved his captain of command in the midst of a typhoon on the
grounds that the captain, Queeg, is a psychopath in crisis and
commanded the ship and its crew to destruction. The play centers on
the key question – was the Caine's executive officer justified in
taking the helm from Captain Queeg at the height of a Pacific
typhoon? And why or why not? Herman Wouk
presents riveting arguments for both prosecution and defense. Naval
tradition is against him, but testimony eventually reveals a
devastating picture of the neurotic Captain Queeg's mental
disintegration.
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
premiered in 1953 at the Granada Theatre in Santa Barbara,
California and toured extensively before opening on Broadway in 1954 at the Plymouth Theatre in
New York City. The original Broadway production ran for a year. Another national tour and worldwide productions followed, including Broadway revivals in 1983 and 2006. The
play has become a favourite scene study vehicle in acting classes and
workshops and been
performed in regional, college, and community theatre productions.
Cast: 19 male
What people say:
"Enormously exciting. It is
the modern stage at its best." — New York Daily News
"Like mines laid by the enemy
across a wartime sea, the plot points arranged by novelist-playwright
Herman Wouk in The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
still explode how and when they should." — Broadway
World
About the Playwright:
Herman Wouk (1915-2019) was an American author best known
for historical fiction such as The Caine Mutiny for which he won the
Pulitzer Prize in fiction. A best-seller, drawing from his wartime
experiences aboard minesweepers during World War II, it was adapted
by the author into a Broadway play called The Caine Mutiny
Court-Martial and, in 1954, Columbia Pictures released a film
version with Humphrey Bogart portraying Lt. Commander Philip Francis
Queeg, captain of the fictional USS Caine.
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