Black Watch - TNT

After almost two years, Gregory Burke's 2006 Edinburgh Festival hit for the National Theatre of Scotland has finally made it to London and into a transformed Barbican theatre. This brilliant fusion of music, movement, video and expletive-spattered dialogue — much of it gleaned from Fifeshire squaddies who served in Iraq — is angry yet beautiful, its characters at times inarticulate yet always powerfully eloquent.
In a superbly choreographed sequence, director John Tiffany deftly recreates three centuries of this proud Scottish regiment's history. But Burke also vividly portrays the gibing camaraderie that pervades the dangerous tedium of anticipating the next mortar attack, and the emotional damage done to the highly drilled young soldiers fortunate enough to return from peacekeeping in "the triangle of death".
Barbican, Silk St, EC2 (020-7638 8891). Until July 26. £25