Dr Strangelove: Steve Coogan and director Seán Foley on staging the Cold War classic 

The stage adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 satire is coming to Ireland, and those involved say it's as relevant and funny as ever 

Steve Coogan as President Muffley in the stage version of Dr Strangelove. Picture: Manuel Harlan

This year marks the sixtieth anniversary of Stanley Kubrick’s black comedy about nuclear weapons and the men who wrangle them, Dr Strangelove: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

Released in 1964, the film, written in the wake of the Cuban missile crisis and loosely based on Peter George’s 1958 novel, Red Alert, raises controversial questions about US nuclear weapons control. Could a mentally unstable American general order a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union, without consulting the president first?