Militant Language

Halcyon Theatre opens its third season with Sean Christopher Lewis’ Militant Language, by Sean Christopher Lewis.

In the current Iraqi state, a private rebuilding effort has been initiated. As things begin to be
rebuilt, however, the village quickly unravels: A pair of American soldiers return from a
surveillance detail covered in blood, and it’s discovered that an Iraqi boy working at the site has gone missing; A liaison from the village comes searching for the boy, and two soldiers imprison him in their barracks and subject him to their own methods of intimidation; The Captain has no control over his forces; Amidst it all one of the enlisted troops finds a baby in the desert. In the end, sand falls, time moves on and everyone is brought to question who they are, what they stand for and where it all went wrong.