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''The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial'' is a two-act play, of the courtroom drama type, that was dramatized for the stage by Herman Wouk, which he adapted from his own novel, ''The Caine Mutiny.'' Wouk's novel covered a long stretch of time aboard the USS ''Caine,'' a Navy destroyer minesweeper in the Pacific. It begins with Willis Keith's assignment to the ''Caine'', chronicles the mismanagement of the ship under Philip Francis Queeg, explains how Steve Maryk relieved Queeg of command, gives an account of Maryk's court-martial, and describes the aftermath of the mutiny for all involved. The play covers only the court-martial itself. Like jurors at a trial, the audience knows only what various witnesses tell of the events on the ''Caine.'' ==Production history== The play was first presented by Paul Gregory in the Granada Theatre, Santa Barbara, California, on October 12, 1953 and then went on tour across the United States before being given its first performance on Broadway at the Plymouth Theatre on 20 January 1954 in a production directed by Charles Laughton and produced by Paul Gregory. The main roles were played by Henry Fonda and John Hodiak. Lloyd Nolan played Queeg. Herbert Anderson (later Dennis the Menace's father on TV) played Dr. Bird. It ran for 415 performances. It was revived in 1983 at the Stamford Center for the Arts, Stamford, Connecticut and then at the Circle in the Square Theatre in a production directed by Arthur Sherman with John Rubinstein and Michael Moriarty, with Jay O. Sanders as Maryk. Former New York Jets quarterback Joe Namath (widely known as "Broadway Joe") replaced Sanders during the run of the show, marking his only appearance on Broadway. Charlton Heston directed a critically acclaimed production in Los Angeles and London in 1984 in which he starred as Queeg. Heston later brought the production to the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theater,〔(''BRIEFING; Cannes on the Potomac'', by Wayne King and Irvin Molotsky, 6/12/86, The New York Times )〕 where it again garnered critical acclaim. The play was first presented on television live in 1955, with Lloyd Nolan and Robert Gist repeating their stage roles as Queeg and Lt. Keefer, respectively, but with Barry Sullivan as Greenwald and Frank Lovejoy as Lt. Maryk. It was staged as an episode of the anthology series ''Ford Star Jubilee.''〔http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0581148/〕 In 1988 Robert Altman directed another made-for-television version of ''The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial'' for CBS, with Eric Bogosian playing Barney Greenwald, Jeff Daniels as Steve Maryk, and Brad Davis playing Philip Francis Queeg. The play was again revived on Broadway in 2006 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre in a production directed by Jerry Zaks, starring Zeljko Ivanek as Queeg, Timothy Daly as prosecutor Lt. Cmdr. John Challee and David Schwimmer as Greenwald. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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