This is a first, and I wonder how I missed this one with the first production in the UK last April? Although I am sure these plays are both political and kind of dorky, but hey, that’s theater for you. lol Honestly though, I really can’t comment on this play because I have not seen it. If any of the readers have seen it, I would love to hear your input on the thing. I guess one way to look at it, is this play is a historic first for this industry and war. –Matt
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I will jump this contract, for it vexes me…….
Have gun, will travel in Stovepipe
By Fiona Mountford
Evening Standard 10.03.09
If we expect to learn about the murky world of private security contractors in Iraq anywhere at all, it’s certainly not in a cavernous basement underneath Morrisons in a Shepherd’s Bush shopping centre. Yet this intriguing found space is just where innovative young producers HighTide, in collaboration with the Bush and National Theatres, have pitched up, for a thrilling promenade performance that walks us through the less salubrious aspects of the post-war Middle East.