Catcher | Theatre review

Theatre Royal, YorkThere was no shortage of conspiracy theories clinging to JD Salinger at his death earlier this year, but among the weirdest was that the writer of The Catcher in the Rye was somehow responsible for the death of John Lennon. Richard Hurford's play suggests that – indirectly – he was. After shooting Lennon on the steps of New York's Dakota building, Mark David Chapman remained at the scene, reading a copy of Salinger's novel in which he had inscribed: "This is my statement...

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