In Johnny Meyer’s timely new play about a squad of Army Rangers patrolling Afghanistan’s unstable border regions, nothing and no one seems to stay in place: Not the officers who constantly question their commanders’ (and their own) wisdom and good will; not the invisible enemy snipers who may or may not be striking from across the porous Pakistani border; and certainly not the soldiers’ distant lives on the home-front, which crash into the combat zone in dangerously unpredictable ways. Instead, these anti-hero “American Volunteers” flounder in a sprawling, violent grey area, without clear roles, purpose, or progress. The meticulously engineered play, on the other hand, unfolds with military precision. more ›