For the first time in the U.K., Joseph Heller’s seminal World War II novel Catch-22 comes to the stage. Explosive, subversive, wild and funny, after 50 years the strength of Heller’s story is undiminished, and his own adaptation is brought to the Liverpool Playhouse by Northern Stage from Tuesday 27th to Saturday 31st May.

Set in the closing months of World War II, a bombardier named Yossarian is trapped in the absurd world of an inescapable war. Frantic and furious as thousands of people he has never met try to kill him, Yossarian is stalked and thwarted by the merciless Catch-22.