Black Watch Review

Black watch review
Summary____________________________________________________
In reality Black Watch is a Scottish regiment, and a quite well-known one apparently. The theatre play “The Black Watch” is a biography of this particular regiment. The play is based on interviews taken from Gregory Burke with former soldiers of the British Army during the Iraq war in 2004. Seen from the perspective of the soldiers in the regiment, Black Watch is about the journey they have fought their war way through together, and what it means to the soldiers to return to their regular environment.
Review______________________________________________________
Before watching the play, I surely did not know what to expect from it, as I was not familiar with it. After a short introduction to the play and eventually watching it, I must say I was fond of it. At least that is the short and my general version of it. I didn’t really know what to expect from a play of this kind. In general, I think that it’s an important thing to keep in mind that I didn’t have any further expectations. Because if your expectations aren’t sky high from the beginning, you have a good chance of not getting disappointed.

The setting was good and I have to admit the actors were outstanding! Every character was extremely well played with a good batch of confidence. Made me feel like they really had been through all of it. Gregory Burke has made an informative, entertaining and provoking play not to forget. Al parts in equal measure. Fantastic. Above all, the scene I enjoyed the most, was the one where Cammy practically gets changed. The viewer gets taken in the hand and brought through a whole lot of previous wars. That was truthfully amazing scenery work.

This said there was one thing I in particular strongly disliked, and that certainly isn’t a critique addressed to Black Watch. I just feel that no theatre play in right mind and respect of itself, or short of these, should film it and al of a sudden make it a movie. Because the real reason one might have to go to the theatre, according to me, is the great experience as a whole. This made the play a less pleasant experience for med. Without the mood and excessively amusing atmosphere, what is there left. In this case a group of reckless men yelling at each other. Isn’t the entire reason for theatre’s to not only watch, but use all of your senses, nearly participate, if you will.

As I pointed out earlier, Black Watch is a play that illustrates the war I Iraq and even more important, the time afterwards. Instead of lecturing us about this war we already know so very well, Author Gregory Burke and instructor John Tiffany lets us know that this war was jumbled and ill planned, and that its political leaders were out of proportions and naive.