A few good men: A world where rank means right

Loosely based on a torture incident in Guantanamo,Colette Sheridanfinds there’s more to Aaron Sorkin’s play than men who can’t handle the truth

IN assembling his cast for Washington DC-based Keegan Theatre’s production of A Few Good Men, director Jeremy Skidmore was keen to distance the hit Broadway play from the subsequent hugely successful 1992 film version starring Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson and Demi Moore.

“The first thing I did was to cast an Iranian-American actor in the role of Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee which was played on the screen by Tom Cruise,” says Skidmore. “I saw the film years ago and consciously didn’t watch it again. Some of the cast hadn’t seen it and I encouraged them not to see it.”