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Clevinger 's Trial is a 1973 short dark comedy play in one act by Joseph Heller .. dark comedy. dark comedy. Joseph Heller. Joseph Heller. Clevinger 's Trial is based on Chapter 8 of Heller 's novel Catch-22 .. Catch-22. Catch-22 ( play ). It is excerpted from the 1971 play Catch-22 , being cut from the original version of Catch-22 to shorten that play 's running time and published as a separate one-act play , running about 15 minutes .. Catch-22. Catch-22 ( play ). The play is a satire of institutional justice .. The action , which is a close copy of the same scene in the novel Catch-22 , concerns a kangaroo court court-martial of air cadet Clevinger on various nonsensical charges .. Catch-22. Catch-22 ( play ). kangaroo court. kangaroo court. court-martial. court-martial. Lieutenant Scheisskopf -LRB- English  : Shithead -RRB- is both prosecutor and defender , and also one of the judges and Clevinger 's commanding officer .. During the trial Scheisskopf rises in rank while almost everyone else present -LRB- including the court stenographer -RRB- is found guilty of something and sentenced to punishment .. Clevinger 's Trial was produced in London in 1974 , and in 1993 by the Griffin Theatre Company of Chicago , where critic Jack Helbig decried the short running time as the `` worst deal in Chicago late-night theater ... no sooner do we become adjusted to Heller 's satirical-absurdist universe with its thinly veiled attacks on cold-war paranoia than the play 's over . ''