description: When the commanding officer of the U.S.S. Caine is transferred, a new captain, strict disciplinarian Philip Francis Queeg, replaces him. But Queeg's actions go beyond strictness into psychopathology as he brings the ship and its crew to the brink of destruction. This necessitates a brutal shipboard court-martial that threatens by turns to clear or condemn him.In adapting his novel for the theater, Herman Wouk focused on the heart of the story: the trial and the man at its center. The result is a grimly effective picture of Queeg's disintegration from perfectionist to paranoid that acts as an indictment not only of an individual but of a society that produces such men.
language: English
title: The Caine Mutiny Court Martial
titlecomplete: The Caine Mutiny Court Martial
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, War, Drama, Classics, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Audiobook, World War II
ratings_count: 421
awards: awardedAt: -504892800000
name: New York Drama Critics' Circle Award
category: Best American Play
publisher: LA Theatre Works