Though the entire company is first-rate, Ammad provides an eviscerating evening’s emotional centre as a kind man pressed into service as a translator and, by extension, into the smouldering inferno around him."
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"it is Joseph’s luminous script that makes the greatest difference. Pinging us between soul-searching monologues and macho bro talk, he cleverly skips us from scene to scene"
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"It’s brutal, hilariously serious and utterly compelling, directed with the itchy feel of a nightmare... for me this seems a work of massive swings, almost of all of which connect with profound force."
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"The marines are not the devils of the piece; the play exudes compassion for and insight into their bewildered worlds"
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"I think it’s only gains from the delay in staging it over here. At this remove, it’s not only a fine drama about the hellish, morally tangled absurdity of conflict – it’s also a diagnosis...that seems all the more relevant."
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"In director Omar Elerian’s adept hands, this multilayered tragi-comedy about the absurdities of war is funny, profound, must-see theatre."
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"For a play that, on many levels, is about its characters’ failure to connect – with each other, with the suffering of others, with their own humanity – it is fitting but nevertheless frustrating to find our own connection to it hamstrung."
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"Maybe the pacing will pick up when the emergency cast change beds in, but, good as these actors are, they’re dealing with some stodgy material."
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