Slaughterhouse-Five Or: the Children's Crusade January 11, 2008

Eric Simonson adapts, in a New York Premiere, Kurt Vonnegut's classic American anti-war book 'Slaughterhouse-Five.' The play introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes unstuck in time after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a plot-scrambling display of virtuosity, we follow Pilgrim simultaneously through all phases of his life, concentrating on his (and Vonnegut's) shattering experience as an American prisoner of war who witnesses the firebombing of Dresden.