The production opening next month, starring Steve Coogan, features a warning that it contains some flashing lights and gunshots, the use of replica guns, haze, bad language, and smoking onstage.
Given the play's about the build-up to nuclear Armageddon, I'd absolutely hope there would be some bad language, says Steve Bennett, editor of Chortle.
This warning is performance within a performance. It is an infantilised performance of virtue that aims to protect sensitive souls from being ambushed by the sight of smoking and bad language, says Frank Furedi.
The production at the Noel Coward Theatre, the first official theatre adaptation of Stanley Kubrick's classic 1964 film, opens on October 8 and runs until January 25, 2025.
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