Why Slaughterhouse Five Couldn't Work As A Play
Just reading the physical copy of SH5 was a challenge. With all of the jumps between times, if it weren't for narratives describing when and where the reader and Billy has been taken, we wouldn't know what was giong on, possibly until far into the description.
In a play, or a movie, there isn't that luxury of just plainly explaining where and what is happening that can't properly be expressed in dialogue. It would be very hard for the audience of this play or movie to know that they are now viewing a scene set decades apart from the scene they were viewing a minute ago.
As a play or movie, without the use of exessive voiceovers, it simply could not be pulled off.
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