Black Watch returns to the Barbican after its Laurence Olivier Award success last year.

Forcibly throwing us into the frontline soldier’s experience – the boredom, the profanity, the day-to-day danger and the gallows humour of the uniquely close-knit comrades – Black Watch takes us beyond the all too easy image of soldiers as heroes or villains.

Today, as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan touch us in different ways, Black Watch opens our perception to the complex and uncomfortable reality of war. This is political theatre that is still as relevant and urgent as ever.

Black Watch is not recommended for under 16s.