It’s a M.A.D. world in Kubrick’s satire

● IF IT’S A SIGN OF A DURABLE SATIRE that a lot of us can do an impersonation of a deluded nuclear scientist driving the world towards atomic annihilation in Dr Strangelove. Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 parody of Mutually Assured Destruction unleashing accidental war with the Soviet Union captured the intensity and risk of the Cold War arms race in the wake of the Cuban missile crisis, with Peter Sellers as the demented, retired Nazi nuclear scientist serving (or rather puppeteering) a gormless US President, Merkin Muffley. It’s a brave soul who, in the 60th anniversary year, treads in Sellers’s footsteps when it comes to playing multiple parts in bizarre accents, but Steve Coogan (below) has the moxie for it and in Armando Iannucci’s new adaptation at the Noël Coward Theatre…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, December/January 2025

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