War Wound

by Phillip Korth

Set in Kuwait and Iraq during the early months of 2003, War Wound follows a group of US Marines through the build-up to invasion and into the first tenuous days of a long, uncertain conflict. Together, they experience war for the first time and discover the boredom, brotherhood, and bloodshed that define combat. Blending documentary-style realism and elements of epic theatricality, this drama is more about...

Set in Kuwait and Iraq during the early months of 2003, War Wound follows a group of US Marines through the build-up to invasion and into the first tenuous days of a long, uncertain conflict. Together, they experience war for the first time and discover the boredom, brotherhood, and bloodshed that define combat. Blending documentary-style realism and elements of epic theatricality, this drama is more about filling sandbags than bodybags. It's conflicts are taut, brutal, but ultimately anticlimatic, as so few aspects of modern war prove to match the Marines' expectations. War Wound is a story common to all soldiers' experiences but still unique to the generation that fought in Iraq and Afghanistan at the beginning of the century. Its characters come to bear the scars all veterans carry, living and dead, injured and uninjured.

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War Wound

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  • Eugene O'Neill Theater Center: War Wound

    It is the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's pleasure to recommend Phillip Korth and their play WAR WOUND as a finalist for our 2012 National Playwrights Conference. The play rose through a competitive, anonymous, multileveled selection process that took nearly nine months to execute. As one finalist out of hundreds of submissions, the strength of this play’s writing has allowed this work to prosper in such a competitive selection process.

    It is the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's pleasure to recommend Phillip Korth and their play WAR WOUND as a finalist for our 2012 National Playwrights Conference. The play rose through a competitive, anonymous, multileveled selection process that took nearly nine months to execute. As one finalist out of hundreds of submissions, the strength of this play’s writing has allowed this work to prosper in such a competitive selection process.

Production History

Awards

  • Inaugural Playwriting Competition
    VetRep
    Finalist
    2022
  • Bridge Award
    Arts in the Armed Forces
    Finalist
    2020