Dr. Strangelove Tickets

Multi-BAFTA Award winner Steve Coogan is set to star in Dr. Strangelove at the Noel Coward Theatre in London this Autumn 2024. The first ever stage adaption of Stanley Kubrick’s iconic work will get its world premiere at the Noel Coward Theatre in Autumn 2024, playing from 8 October to 21 December 2024.. Steve Coogan is one of the UK’s most acclaimed actors whose remarkable career includes seven BAFTA Awards. He will play multiple roles in the production, in the role that was played by Peter Sellers in Kubrick's acclaimed movie. Dr. Strangelove is a jet-black comedy is about a rogue U.S. General who triggers a nuclear crisis, and is brought to the stage by acclaimed, BAFTA and Emmy Award winner Armando Iannucci and Olivier Award winner Sean Foley, with Foley directing. The project was first announced in July, and is billed as an explosively funny satire of mutually assured destruction. Tickets go on sale tomorrow, 27 September. Actor Steve Coogan said in a statement: “The idea of putting Dr Strangelove on stage is daunting. A huge responsibility. It’s also an exciting challenge, an opportunity to bring this timeless classic to a new audience. Knowing that I will be part of a creative team led by Sean Foley and Armando Iannucci means I will be working with the best people. Sean is a master of stage comedy and Armando and I started working with each other over 30 years ago. We made some memorable comedy together so it’s great to be collaborating with him once again.” Director Sean Foley said: “I’m thrilled and excited to finally be able to say that one of our very finest actor-comedians, the amazingly talented Steve Coogan, is to play the lead in our world premiere stage version of Dr Strangelove. Across stand up, sitcom, tv, and film, and in both comic and dramatic roles, Steve has excelled being able to make people belly laugh even while they wince - sensing the maladroit, the madness, and the menace in his extraordinary characters… I can think of no better actor to convey the ’nightmare comedy’ of Strangelove.” Writer Armando Iannucci said: “It’s a tale of our time and it needs one of the most amazing talents of our time to tell it: I’ve seen Steve Coogan close-up for many years now, and can tell you that no-one gets right under the skin of a character the way he does. There’s a total focus on how each character would speak and move and even think, added to which is an instinctive comic timing and dramatic charisma that’s second to none. He’s able to get huge audiences to connect with the vulnerabilities and fine details of each character he brings to life. We’re all so delighted he’ll be bringing these amazing gifts to the stage for the hugely contrasting roles in Dr Strangelove and I for one can’t wait to see Steve make them his own. It’s going to be a thrill for all of us.” More about Dr. Strangelove tickets at the Noel Coward Theatre in London

 Stanley Kubrick's iconic movie Dr. Strangelove is set to get a new stage adaptation, and open in the West End in Autumn 2024. This will be the first ever stage adaptation of the legendary film-maker's work, with Dr Strangelove co-adapted for the stage by BAFTA and Emmy Award winner Armando Iannucci (VEEP, The Thick Of It, Death of Stalin) and co-adapted and directed by Olivier Award winner Sean Foley. This jet-black comedy masterpiece, about a rogue U.S. General who triggers a nuclear crisis, is an explosively funny satire of mutually assured destruction.  The West End venue, dates, cast and further creative team will be announced in due course. The show will be playing a Delfont Mackintosh venue, so will likely be the Noel Coward Theatre, Wyndham's Theatre or Gielgud Theatre. Dr. Strangelove is produced by Patrick Myles and David Luff, in association with Tulchin Bartner Productions and Playful Productions who are also currently producing Ivo van Hove’s adaptation of A Little Life starring James Norton, and are general managers of Wicked and Moulin Rouge! in the West End, and forthcoming West End revival of The Unfriend and Broadway transfer of MJ The Musical. The Quotes Writer Armando Iannucci said: “It’s both thrilling and hugely terrifying to be asked to adapt Kubrick’s great apocalyptic movie for the stage: which is useful, since it’s a thrilling comedy about huge terror. The events it portrays are no less mad today than when Stanley Kubrick made the film sixty years ago. No-one marshals madness on stage better than Sean Foley so it’s been an extremely enjoyable process plotting our mutually assured destruction together.  My hope is audiences will respond to Dr. Strangelove on stage with bountiful laughter and shrieks.” Director Sean Foley said: “It is both a privilege and a thrill to be asked to adapt and direct one of the most iconic films of all time, and working with Armando Iannucci on the adaptation has been a joy. Stanley Kubrick’s ’nightmare comedy’ is a perennially relevant satire on world politics and how powerful men can be stupid enough to let us all die if it means they get to brag about it. With a string of hilarious scenes and characters, and a plot that takes us to the edge of doom, I hope Dr. Strangelove on stage will once again prove to be the comedy that makes us think deeply whilst we laugh our heads off.” Christiane Kubrick, Stanley’s widow, said: “We have always been reluctant to let anyone adapt any of Stanley's work, and we never have.  It was so important to him that it wasn't changed from how he finished it.  But we could not resist authorising this project:  the time is right; the people doing it are fantastic; and Strangelove should be brought to a new and younger audience.  I am sure Stanley would have approved it too.” Jan Harlan, Stanley’s long-time producer, said: “Dr. Strangelove was initially conceived as a serious film based on the novel “Red Alert” by Peter George. During the adaptation Stanley ran into a wall: It was impossible to make a successful film about the end of mankind since nobody, himself included, would want to see it. The answer was satire.   Laughing is one of our go-to responses when faced with an inescapable reality. As the film charts our short path to total self-destruction, we must make fun of it and ‘all will be well’.”