Review: American Volunteers at FronteraFest [theater]

Courtesy Austinist  Mon, 02/01/2010 - 1:33pm

By Cleve Wiese

American Volunteers.jpg 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...


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