Just got home from my first performance of Home of the Soldier at Synetic. I’ll be on deck for both Saturday and Sunday’s shows, and probably a few more after that.
It’s a good show, but definitely needs a trigger warning. It exists in no real time and place, and follows a soldier through boot camp and into war. No specific war, and in fact I would guess it’s more eastern Europe than middle east. So it has that going for them! It’s not overtly Islamophobic!
But it does have lots of guns, loud noises (gunshots, explosions, and helicopters), death imagery, suicide, and rape. So, yeah. Not exactly a light evening out at the theatre.
Don’t come in expecting to have a good time. But come in expecting a brutal war story, and you won’t be disappointed.