Based on interviews with former soldiers, Gregory Burke’s spectacular drama combined multi-media and documentary elements with music, songs, movement and black humour – the traditional tools of Scottish popular theatre – to tell the story of the Black Watch’s involvement in the Iraq War. Brilliantly staged but politically contentious, the play and production – hard to separate the two – quickly became Scottish theatres’ biggest success since The Cheviot… and the new National Theatre of Scotland’s signature production.
Video extract from National Theatre of Scotland performance archive of 2006 NTS production. STA NTS D2.