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In the autumn of 1990, during Operation Desert Storm, two young men, one a troubled Canadian soldier, the other a teenage Palestinian black-marketeer, meet in the scorched Qatari desert. Breaching the divide of a profound cultural misunderstanding and against a backdrop of massive global conflict, these two become unlikely and secret friends. This tenuous friendship is severed by the torture and murder of the 16-year-old Palestinian inside the Canadian base—an act to which the Canadian soldier was at least a witness and perhaps a willing participant.
Weaving poetic drama with myriad documentary sources, A Line in the Sand rips the benevolent mask off recent western peacekeeping operations and challenges Canada's long treasured national mythology that it is a nation of quiet diplomats. It asks us to imagine how horrors like these could be perpetrated with our money, in our name and by people much like us.
Cast of three to five men.
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Diane Hall
reviewed Line in the Sand on February 12, 2019
Line in the Sand
12. A Soldier's Heart by David French
The earliest of the Mercer plays, this long one act drama introduces us to an older generation of the family, Esau, Jacob's father, who was at the Somme with his brother Will and who is suffering from what we would call PTSD. Jacob wants to know more about what happened when his father was in the army and his only source of information is Bert, the train stationmaster, who served alongside Esau and Will. Will is about to leave home when his father finds him at the station. The secret is revealed and Jacob and Esau reconcile. Some critics have found Jacob too sympathetic to his father, but I found that endearing, and knowing Jacob's life and eventual fate, seemed almost prophetic. I also liked the graphic descriptions of life in the trenches in France.
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