Theatre review: Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five is one of those books considered unfilmable and unstageable, which inevitably means people have attempted both. The latest to try a stage version are a company named after the novel's recurring phrase every time anyone mentions death: So It Goes. It's a refrain that comes from the Tralfamadorians, aliens who abduct Billy Pilgrim (Patrick McAndrew) in the late 1960s on the day of his daughter's wedding, and take him to their own planet to be exhibited at a zoo. The aliens experience the world four-dimensionally, meaning time isn't linear to them, so death or even the destruction of the universe - which they know they'll be accidentally responsible for but can't or won't change - aren't notable events since every other moment still exists simultaneously. He's eventually returned to Earth after a long time, but also to the exact moment he left it.As a human he can't experience time in the same way as his captors but he does inherit a version of it,…