By Sarah Mills Sixty years after cult movie, Dr. Strangelove plays in London’s West End LONDON, – Sixty years after director Stanley Kubrick’s movie “Dr. Strangelove” was released, a stage version of the black comedy has opened in London’s West End starring Oscar-nominated and BAFTA award-winning actor Steve Coogan. Like actor Peters Sellers in the original version of the Cold War farce, Coogan takes on several roles, including U.S. President Merkin Muffley and German scientific advisor Dr. Strangelove. “It’s demanding physically, but it is rewarding to do. And audiences, if they laugh and they enjoy it, then, that’s all you can ask for,” he said after the show on Tuesday. “Dr. Strangelove” opens with U.S. General Ripper giving orders to attack the then Soviet Union. The U.S President sets about trying to stop the bogus mission and tensions escalate after the information emerges that a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union would trigger the Soviet Doomsday Machine – a secret device set to self-detonate and kill all life on the planet. British writer Armando Iannucci, whose …