Casting Complete for Off-Broadway Production of Catch-22
by Broadway.com Staff • Oct 21, 2008
Casting is complete for Aquila Theatre Company's forthcoming world premiere production of Joseph Heller's Catch-22. The play will begin a limited engagement at the Lucille Lortel Theatre on November 14, adapted and directed by Peter Meineck. Opening night is scheduled for November 23, running through December 20.
Joining the previously announced John Lavelle will be Mark Alhadeff Bedroom Farce, Power of Darkness, David Bishins A Mother, a Daughter and a Gun; Sympathetic Magic; Boys in the Band, Chip Brookes, Christina Pumariega, Craig Wroe An Oak Tree, and Aquila veteran Richard Sheridan Willis.
Catch-22 is the story of Yossarian, a bombardier on a B-25, based on a small island off the coast of Italy in 1944. He starts to question the futile and ridiculous administration of his air base and seeks a way to preserve his life when the whole world around him seems to be going mad. Like a modern-day Achilles, Yossarian protests with powerful and often hilarious results. Heller's best-selling book caused the term "Catch-22" to enter the language as a description of a ridiculously cyclical situation. In 1971, Heller himself created a play based on the novel that has not received a professional production.
Joining the previously announced John Lavelle will be Mark Alhadeff Bedroom Farce, Power of Darkness, David Bishins A Mother, a Daughter and a Gun; Sympathetic Magic; Boys in the Band, Chip Brookes, Christina Pumariega, Craig Wroe An Oak Tree, and Aquila veteran Richard Sheridan Willis.
Catch-22 is the story of Yossarian, a bombardier on a B-25, based on a small island off the coast of Italy in 1944. He starts to question the futile and ridiculous administration of his air base and seeks a way to preserve his life when the whole world around him seems to be going mad. Like a modern-day Achilles, Yossarian protests with powerful and often hilarious results. Heller's best-selling book caused the term "Catch-22" to enter the language as a description of a ridiculously cyclical situation. In 1971, Heller himself created a play based on the novel that has not received a professional production.