Shoot / Get Treasure / Repeat

With its combination of emotionally involving scenarios, barely suppressed anger, and cool political critique, Ravenhill's Shoot / Get Treasure / Repeat bears striking resemblance in structure and theme to Brecht's Fear and Misery in the Third Reich (abridged and translated in 1941 as Private Lives of the Master Class), with everyday encounters between family, friends, and soldiers updated to address the current war on terror. The Odyssey, with its sympathetic depiction of exhausted soldiers, could have been interpreted by some as supporting the war effort, just as the final play of the cycle invites wholesale dismissal of the arts community's activist projects.