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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. It transferred in
1954 to the Plymouth Theatre
on Broadway in
New York City. 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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