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Plays On Location; Forget going to the theater. Live dramas are being staged in airports, hospitals and parks. Just beware of dogs.

Newsweek International

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Byline: Ginanne Brownell (With Vanessa Whiteside in London)

On a recent balmy evening in the Scottish Highlands, 260 theatergoers were led up a well-lit, pine-tree-lined concrete path. Their destination? A vacant hydraulics plant. With bagpipe music pumping through the sound system and projections of the blue-and-white Scottish flag superimposed on the wall, the large concrete space had the impersonal and transient feel of an army barracks--exactly the atmosphere the producers of "Black Watch" hoped to replicate. The play--which debuted last year at the Edinburgh Festival and is now touring Scotland before it comes to London in May--is based on the true story of a Highlands regiment sent to Iraq in 2004. It is a shattering tale of how the soldiers cope not only with the intense pressures of serving in postwar Iraq but also with the fact that their regiment--which traces its roots back to the ...

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