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Dateline: 14th August, 2007
Black Watch at BITE:08 At a press conference in Edinburgh this morning, the National Theatre of Scotland's director Vicky Featherstone announced that last year's hit production Black Watch will at last be seen in London. It will play for five weeks as part of the Barbican's BITE:08 season after a visit to the United States where it will be presented by Los Angeles-based UCLA Live as part of its International Theatre Festival from 18th September to14th October, and then go to New York's St Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn from 20th October to 11th November. Black Watch, written by Gregory Burke and directed by John Tiffany, deals primarily with a group of men who have all left the "Gallant Forty Twa" after the horrors of life in Iraq. It was by far the biggest hit of the 2006 Edinburgh Fringe and has since toured in Scotland to Pitlochry, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Dumfries and Inverness. It was planned to take it to London, in cooperation with the Barbican, in May or June this year but a suitable venue could not be found. The play is site-specific and requires a large warehouse-like space. The NTS hopes to get as many of the original cast together as possible for both the tour and the London run.
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