Synopsis

Part history, part time-traveling science-fiction, Slaughterhouse-Five is the satirical tale of Billy Pilgrim, a naïve American optometrist from Illium, New York, who survives the firebombing of Dresden, Germany by American and British troops during World War II. Back home, Pilgrim is kidnapped by aliens who instruct him in the nature of the fourth dimension, where time is an eternal present, and he brings this knowledge back to earth. Adapter-director Eric Simonson, who wrote and directed Nomathemba and received a Tony Award nomination as best director for The Song of Jacob Zulu, returns to adapt Vonnegut's Sixties anti-war novel.

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Slaughterhouse-Five

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Content Advisory

Steppenwolf does not offer advisories about subject matter, as sensitivities vary from person to person.If you have any questions about content, age-appropriateness or stage effects(such as strobe lights or theatrical fog) that might have a bearing on patron comfort, please contact the box office at 312-335-1650.