Herman Wouk's novel The Caine Mutiny, about an imagined incident during the World War II Pacific campaign, was published by Doubleday in 1951. It won the Pulitzer Prize and remained at the top of the bestseller charts for over two years. In 1953, Wouk adapted a section of the slightly autobiographical work for the stage as a military courtroom drama. (Wouk had served on a destroyer minesweeper and sold his fist novel while doing so, which is also the case with one of his characters.) Directed by Charles Laughton and starring Henry Fonda and Lloyd Nolan, the play opened in January 1954 and closed almost exactly a year later.

I mention these facts because, in looking at the 2006 revival of T[...]