This piece chokes me, beautifully and horribly. The anguish of surviving combat, trauma, and cultural repression cause such a volatile crock pot, that Rosendorf approaches with incredible emotional intelligence and grace. While the world we live in gets progressively efficient at violence, without being rote shows like this bring healing and space for that complex world of heightened pain and lost time enforced by that systemic trauma conditioning of Military culture.

Rosendorf is a rare playwright that knows how to create a play with time transitions. Jarring, quick, sometimes fluid transitions from past to present from the perspective of soldier Kyle will create an unforgettable spectacle for your audience. A spectacle that's a minefield of explosive emotions. Rosendorf achieves that while exploring subjects of masculinity, male body, gay sexuality, trauma, and war.
This is one of those plays where total design - media, lighting, sound and set - could achieve something spectacular. What a challenge for designers!

Wow! What an extraordinarily tender and complex examination of several queer men each with unique relationships to masculinity, war, and how those things intersect with their identities. Kyle is such a powerful protagonist, a bundle of nerves waiting to be exposed. I loved how this play moved along at a contemplative pace, while propelling itself intently to a suitably wrenching, sweet, and inspiring climax. Rosendorf transitions from scene to scene with boldly theatrical "cinematic" insta-cuts. Scenes bleeding into the next only serve to underscore Kyle's attempts to make sense of his fragmented life. I must see this!