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7 April 2009 10:00 PM, PDT | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »

Dalton Trumbo set his novel Johnny Got His Gun in a gruesome corner of the first World War. In the years between 1938, when he wrote it, and 1971, when he adapted it into his only directorial effort, Trumbo temporarily withdrew the novel in deference to the second world war, then watched his successful screenwriting career get sidelined by imprisonment and blacklisting, thanks to his refusal to cooperate with Huac. The blacklist faded, and Trumbo’s career revived. Wars came and went, and though years divide the story’s conception from its adaptation, the simplicity of its grim story has …

31 January 2009 12:45 PM, PST | BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news »

Today, as our young soldiers return home with scarred psyches and injuries never before imagined, Johnny Got His Gun's relevance is once again clear. Based on American author Dalton Trumbo's classic 1939 novel and adapted for the stage by Bradley Rand Smith, Johnny Got His Gun is the inspiring story of twenty-year-old Joe Bonham, a quadruple amputee who has lost his ability to see, hear and speak during his service in World War I. Regaining consciousness, Joe discovers that while his brain is healthy and able to reason, the rest of his body is irreparably shattered, leaving him trapped forever within the confines of his own imagination. The play follows his valiant struggle to find some way to communicate with the outside world, to rejoin humanity and to confront society as a living example of the cost of war. …

2 articles from 2009