"Black Watch"

The play "Black Watch" provided energy and spiced up the plot of the average war story. It was exciting and allowed the viewers to expand our imaginations. The whole presence of the play allowed the audience to view it as though we were part it. I got a better understanding of what I read and I was able to receive the play with appreciation.

The effects that were given along with the energy, placed “Black Watch” into a great position for excellent ratings. I as extremely satisfied with the actors and their performances. This play took war stories into a separate level. The average war story included much more of what we would say is fiction. The play was much more realistic.

The men built a brotherly relationship with each other. The play involved love, humor, fear and desire. The feeling of desire that the men demonstrated was the need to return home. Even though they did have sexual desires, their main focus was if and when they would return home to their families. Unlike what Swafford in “Jarhead” displayed, the level of fear was much stronger in “Black Watch.”

The men were fearful every time they heard gun fire near their post. Even as they told the story to the reporter, they explained every feeling they felt then and at present.

I feel if I saw a play for each book we read thus far, I would be as satisfied with the fact that we read three war stories. The play was filled with explanations and clarifications of things that I didn’t acknowledge when I read it. I enjoyed this war story from beginning to end.