2006 play by Gregory Burke based on a series of interviews conducted with soldiers from the Black Watch regiment about their 2004 deployment to the "Triangle of Death" in Iraq.
Provides examples of:
- Bilingual Bonus: A gaelic song plays after Fraz, Kenzie and the Sergeant are killed by an IED.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Cammy concedes that the difference in equipment and firepower meant it wasn't much of a fair fight between them and the Iraqis they were up against."After a while it's more bullying than fighting."
- Everything's Louder with Bagpipes: A piper plays just before the start of a firefight that could potentially be the Black Watch's last attack before they're amalgamated into the Royal Regiment of Scotland.
- Framing Device: The plot is based around a researcher interviewing a group of soldiers who've returned home from Iraq with the possibility of turning their stories into a play. This leads to a conversation about which famous actors might play them.
- Gay Bravado: One of the games the soldiers play to pass the time is "toby tig", which involves slapping each other in the face with their dicks.
- Have We Met?: Once he's got him pinned down, Fraz asks Gav, the embedded journalist, if he knows him from Burntisland.
- Killed Offscreen: After the wagon gets stuck, the Sergeant pulls Fraz and Kenzie off to come with him and the interpreter on a stop-and-search. When the action switches back to the pub with the researcher, Cammy tells him that all four men were killed by an IED.
- Mirroring Factions: In one of his letters home, the officer says that the Army had failed to understand that suicide bombers were motivated by a desire for glory, which is also shown to have been a factor in recruits' desire to join the Black Watch.
- Local Soundtrack: The play includes folk songs like The Gallant Forty Twa and The Forfar Soldier, which mention place names in the Tayside and Fife region where the regiment is based.
- Momma's Boy: Cammy doesn't want the journalists who've come to cover the regiment's deployment to film him smoking because his mum will kill him.
- Orgasmic Combat: After an argument sparks off between Kenzie and one of the other soldiers in the wagon, the Sergeant gives them ten seconds to fight it out. When calls time he declares that it was a rubbish fight and that he had to stop it before one of them came.
- Pretentious Pronunciation: Being a Scottish aristocrat with an English accent, Lord Elgin tried to recruit local men into the regiment to fight by regaling them of tales of the Battle of "Byannackbarrrn".
- Recruiters Always Lie: The whole play is based on comparing the soldiers' first-hand experiences to what the public sees of The War on Terror in the news. This trope is pointedly parodied in a scene where a group of miners are recruited to fight in the First World War with promises of travel, guns, football and exotic women.
- Seinfeldian Conversation: How the soldiers pass the time while they're stuck in the wagon.
