Old Glory
by Brett Neveu

Shrouded in mystery, the circumstances surrounding six ordinary people grappling with the emotional casualties of war unfold.“Neveau’s latest is a murder investigation, similarly filled with subterranean currents of subtext beneath vividly colloquial dialogues … The murder in OLD GLORY occurs in Fallujah where — never mind the war — two American GIs who share a barracks drive each other to paroxysms of mutual loathing.

(So no, Gertrude, this is not really a play about the war but about the homefront) … The latent violence simmering between the soldiers — one a devotee of graphic novels, the other of real novels — speaks head-on to why the United States can’t seem to generate a reasonable discourse with herself about anything that actually matters.

The isolation of the three scenic compartments underscores that point … Like [Neveu’s] AMERICAN DEAD, it’s a penetratingly written rumination, a lament even, for something indescribable that’s been lost in this country — and to this country.”

—Steven Leigh Morris, L A Weekly“Haunting, intimate and intensely moving.”

—Chicago Tribune