Currently on at St. Ann’s Warehouse, DUMBO, Brooklyn is the celebrated National Theatre of Scotland’s Black Watch, an extraordinary play about the Iraq War that runs now until Nov. 30. (See description below.) Black Watch has been a huge success everywhere it has toured over the last two years and has been showered with praise by critics and audiences alike.
Over the last few months St., Ann’s has solicited underwriting so that veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan could see this play for free. To date we’ve received enough support to cover tickets for some 230 vets. St. Ann’s will hold 40 tickets for Columbia students. Please RSVP with Peter Kim at milvets@gmail.com. To learn more about Black Watch and St. Ann’s Warehouse visit www.stannswarehouse.org.
About Black Watch
Written by Scottish playwright Gregory Burke, Black Watch takes audiences to the battlefield with a poetic power beyond the grasp of journalism, film or television. Based on interviews with soldiers from the 300 year old Black Watch regiment, upon their return from a tour of duty in Iraq, it is an exuberant, mixed-media play, making inspired use of docudrama, video sequences, song, dance, panoramic historical sequences and an extraordinary sound score to portray how members of the Black Watch regiment (formed under George II in 1723) dealt with intense fighting in Iraq as well as the dissolution of their beloved Black Watch regiment. Black Watch acquaints the audience with the soldiers as young men with a sense of pride in their military service, a profound loyalty to one another and their regiment, and the time they spent together which haunts them long after they return home.
About St. Ann’s Warehouse
Located on the Brooklyn Waterfront in DUMBO, Brooklyn, St. Ann’s Warehouse is an award winning presenting, producing arts organization that each season presents an array of contemporary music and theater by some of the most talented artists working today.
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