Photo Credit © Manuel Harlan, DR. STRANGELOVE at the Noël Coward Theatre
The West End stage production of Stanley Kubrick’s Dr Strangelove will be streamed to cinemas worldwide on March 27, 2025. Starring Steve Coogan, the production will continue at London’s Noël Coward Theatre through January 25 and will then play a limited engagement at Dublin’s Bord Gáis Energy Theatre from February 5 to 22. It is directed by Sean Foley from an adaptation by Armando Iannucci.
Originally released in 1964, Dr Strangelove was a Cold War-era satire about a rogue American general, played by Peter Sellers, whose blunders triggered a nuclear attack. Its full title was Dr Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying About the Bomb.
Coogan, a seven-time BAFTA Award winner, plays four roles in the current theatrical version: Dr Strangelove, President Merkin Muffley, Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, and Major TJ Kong. Other cast members include Oliver Alvin-Wilson, Penny Ashmore, Ben Deery, Richard Dempsey, Mabli Gwynne, Mark Hadfield, John Hopkins, Tony Jayawardena, Tom Kelsey, Daniel Norford, Adam Sina, Alex Stoll, Giles Terera, and Ben Turner.
According to the official release for the March 27 broadcast: “With a world-renowned creative team led by BAFTA and Emmy Award winner Armando Iannucci and Olivier Award winner Sean Foley, this explosively funny satire of mutually assured destruction will leave a whole new generation of audiences laughing and afraid.”
A review of the stage production for Far Out magazine declared: “It takes Kubrick’s world and reshapes it in a way that’s both a homage to the classic and a bold new take by a team of experts in the world of dark comedy. In that way, it’s an opus on an opus.”
Iannucci is also working on a new film about social media. He also recently created Touchscreen, a production company that will be working with BBC Studios “to develop and co-produce innovative, daring and world-class scripted programming for the UK and international markets.”
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