'Soldier' Offers No New Insights on the Horrors of War
Jonathan Draxton conceived of “Soldier” while he was an undergraduate at Williams College, after his professor assigned the students to write a theater piece on a subject that bothered them. The subject Draxton picked, as he later explained in an essay accompanying his Kickstarter fundraising campaign, was war, and especially “how we portray war in art.” Somehow his assignment led to a solo sh…