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"#1 Theatrical Event of the Year"
Ben Brantley, The New York Times
John Heilpern, The New York Observer
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"It's essential that you see Black Watch"-- John Heilpern, New York Observer
"one of the most richly human works of art to have emerged from this long-lived war" -Ben Brantley, The New York Times
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! LIMITED RETURN ENGAGEMENT!
NATIONAL THEATRE OF SCOTLAND
BLACK WATCH
Written by GREGORY BURKE
Directed by JOHN TIFFANY
OCT 9 - NOV 30
Extended! Thru Dec 21 ONLY!
Tickets start at $55
Dear Friends,
Last fall, the National Theatre of Scotland's Black Watch took New York by storm, arriving at St. Ann's Warehouse like "a blazing redeemer" and "a cause for hope" (The New York Times). It played for 23 performances at 100% capacity. We were sad that we could not reach out to the many people who wanted and needed to see this production. It simply sold out too quickly, and the clamor for more was loud and urgent.
It would be a smashing gift to New York if Black Watch returned in the New Year. --John Heilpern, New YorkObserver, 1/1/2008
We agree. As our gift to New Yorkers, St. Ann's Warehouse and National Theatre of Scotland have joined together to present a two-month return engagement in October 2008. Here's a second chance to see this searing soldier's-eye-view of the Iraq war that takes audiences to the battlefield with a poetic power beyond the grasp of journalism, film or TV. The action veers seamlessly and imaginatively between pub-set interviews and in-the-moment deployment scenes, careening between past and present with hallucinatory immediacy to a live musical score that includes regimental folk songs and thrilling bagpipes. The physicality of Black Watch is extraordinary and brings war to shattering life, intimately portraying how members of this historic regiment dealt with an intense tour of duty in Iraq and with what it means to make the journey home again. Come join us for what Ben Brantley, of The New York Times, calls "an essential testament to the abiding relevance-and necessity-of theater."
Sincerely,
Susan Feldman, Artistic Director
St. Ann's Warehouse
CRITICAL PRAISE FOR BLACK WATCH
"It's not until the first body pushes itself out of the pool table, a few minutes into the show, that you begin to grasp just how thrilling -- and disturbing -- Black Watch is going to be. Up to that point, this transfixing play from Edinburgh about a Scottish Army regiment in Iraq, which opened last night at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn, has felt like a smart but orthodox docudrama, a form increasingly common in political theater." READ MORE >>
"Put simply, it's essential that you see Black Watch at St. Ann's Warehouse: It's among the most compelling theater pieces you could wish to see. And weep for, in a sense. The production from Scotland's National Theatre is a magnifiscent one, and its awesome reality and humaneness will overwhelm you." READ MORE >>
"Warriors with a proud heritage going back more than 250 years, the members of Scotland's famed military regiment known as the Black Watch were dispatched in Iraq in 2003. Their time in the desert is now rendered as Black Watch, and engrossing semi-documentary drama of unusual artistry." READ MORE >>
"The "Golden Thread" connecting three centuries of service by Scotland's famed, red-cockaded Black Watch Regiment was snapped, many feel, by ill-considered Iraq War duty and Britain's 2004 decision to merge all units into one super-regiment. Vets' testimony led to a National Theater of Scotland scripted pageant that has marched confidently from the Edinburgh Festival onto the UCLA campus as part of a world tour. Shifting fluidly among three distinct levels of theatrical representation, Black Watch at its best is a stinging and often heartwrenching primer on the hearts and minds of soldiers today and, by extension, throughout history." READ MORE >>
"The ten actors go through their physical paces with admirable intensity and discipline. From its startling early scene in which a soldier cuts his way out of a pool table to the haunting final tableaux depicting the effects of a suicide bombing, Black Watch provides a theatrical experience not easily forgotten." READ MORE>>
AUDIENCE REACTION FROM BLACK WATCH
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