We Bombed in New Haven [RARE BOOKS]

As the curtain rises on We Bombed in New Haven preparation are being made in the briefing room of an American Air Force station to obliterate Constantinople. In this grimly satirical fantasy of modern war, 'Heller looses the same wild imagination on his play that he loosed on Catch-22' Life

Like Catch-22, the play captures precisely the total insanity of modern warfare: a social fantasy worked out in terms of burnt cities and millions of corpses. And it does so in a form that owes more to the Marx brothers than to any traditions of "serious" theatre' New Society