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Johnny Got His Gun: adapting the 'unstageable' anti-war novel by Matt Trueman

Director David Mercatali and actor Jack Holden explain how Dalton Trumbo's blistering diatribe has been brought to the stageAfter being hit by a shell towards the end of the first world war, Joe Bonham wakes from a coma to slowly deduce his situation. He's lying in a hospital bed with no arms and no legs. Plus: no teeth, no eyes, no nose, no ears. He is just a torso and a train of thought.Bonham is the protagonist of…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:13AM on May 20, 2014

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