The comic actor is playing four parts in the new stage version of Stanley Kubrick’s film, which comes to Ireland in 2025
in the forthcoming film Saipan – “He’s from Barnsley, up the road from me” – when someone starts loudly drilling into a nearby wall.“I don’t think so at this stage,” the friendly press person says.’s dark satire, which moves to Dublin in the new year. Coogan is playing four distinct parts, so he’s understandably a little distracted.
Steve Coogan as Dr Strangelove in the stage adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s satire. Photograph: Manuel Harlan Having Steve Coogan take me on an epic if distracted trek through a theatre to his dressingroom is the most fun I’ve had in ages. It is, in fact, vaguely “One gallows-humour joke between Armando and I is that, the worse the world gets, the better it is for the play,” Foley, the play’s director and cowriter, says. “Incredibly, JFK 2, or whatever he’s called” – he meansto run the US department of health – “says, literally, exactly what General Ripper says in the show, which is, ‘We’ve got to stop all this fluoridisation business,’ and he sees weird plots in vaccination.
I sit up in the balcony of the Noël Coward Theatre and watch actors dressed as airmen gather in the seats below before the rehearsal begins. Crew members in black T-shirts move heavy pieces of set about. Foley sits talking to Iannucci in the stalls. “Let’s have it!” one of the airman says as the show commences across three amazing-looking sets: General Ripper’s office, the war room and the cockpit of a huge B52 bomber flying against a huge video screen.
If Sellers defined British comedy in the 1960s, Coogan and Iannucci have defined it since the 1990s, when they created the news-satirising programmes On the Hour and The Day Today. It was on those shows that Coogan first developed, who went on to be the focus of several TV series, a film, a podcast and two books across the following decades., Stephen Frears’s film about the Magdalene laundries. “Philomena got me my get-out-of-jail-free card,” he says. “No one ever offered me a role like that.
I meet Iannucci up in another strange little anteroom in the theatre. He tells me about how Dr Strangelove, along with The Great Dictator,’s Brazil and The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy had an impact on him as a young man. “I was, like, ‘Oh, you can do comedy, at the University of the Arts in London. Initially Kubrick was working on Dr Strangelove as a serious drama. Then, Iannucci says, “they realised that the only way to tell this story is through the absurdity”.
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