Slaughterhouse-Five
This is a brave attempt to do the near impossible " and it succeeds in what audiences appreciate most " humor. But Vonnegut's humor is of the darkest variety, and getting across that darkness and still getting people to laugh at it is not so easy, especially in a play, where for the most part your only tools are words. Slaughterhouse Five, the novel, has always seemed to me like a 200-page thesis on two lines of p…