Black Watch

Viewed through the eyes of those on the ground, "Black Watch" reveals what it means to be part of the legendary Scottish regiment, what it means to be part of the war on terror, and what it means to make the journey home. This book contains Gregory Burke's award-winning script, with production notes by the director John Tiffany and colour photographs that capture the powerful and inventive use of movement in this urgent piece of theatre. The National Theatre of Scotland's production of "Black Watch" opened at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2006, where it won a Herald Angel, a Scotsman Fringe First, the Critics numbered Circle Award and the South Bank Show Award for Theatre. During a world tour it won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Foreign Play. "Completely brilliant". ("Daily Telegraph"). "Burke's play [represents] a massive step forward in our understanding and recognition of a vital part of our national story and - potentially - of the relationship between Scottish theatre and the widest possible popular audience, both at home, and far beyond our shores". ("Scotsman"). "A brilliantly realised piece". ("Evening Standard"). "Arrives like a blazing redeemer ...a necessary reminder of the transporting power that is unique to theatre...Every moment in "Black Watch" seems to bleed from the previous one in an uninterrupted river of sensations". ("New York Times").