Rarely to I see a play that I dislike as much. I found this play assaulting and brutal. I will say the set was superb, raising my expectations from the start. Costuming was excellent. But the play itself was repellent and pretentious. I have no problem with plays that provoke or anger if they go somewhere or ask trenchant questions. But this one had me fleeing the theater at intermission. It wasn't just the noise and the nastiness; it was boring. I admit I hated personally the Iraq war and there are few places I would rather be transported for the evening than war-torn Baghdad. So that could color the feelings of revulsion that drove me from the theater. But I do not feel the acting of the soldiers was convincing. The gardener was excellent. Mostly, if I going to have to deal with the pointlessness and inhumanity of war or the meaning of life--or lack of meaning, give me a more mature and better written script that doesn't have shock value and the F word as its main device.