Combat!
Story
A drama about gays in the US Marine Corps during World War II who survive the invasions of Tarawa and Iwo Jima and then are persecuted by their own government in the military witch hunts.
Coverage
Winner: Will Glickman Playwright Award, Bay Area Critics Circle Award for Best Script
“Combat! juggles myriad elements, with engaging , witty, resourceful, cinematically sweeping results. Combat! is already worthy of play on any first-rate regional stage… Major regional theaters might be wise to sniff out the potential before they're trumped.” (Dennis Harvey, Variety.)
"Fisher's Combat! Carries the Day! History, sexuality merge in ambitious, pass ionate epic! Exhilarating! John Fisher restakes his claim as one of the most stimulating theater artists to emerge here in the past decade... [Fisher] gives his material such a confident theatrical charge that the audience feels the kind of vibrations Tony Kushner unleashed in Angels in America." [The little man is clapping!] (Steven Winn, S.F. Chronicle.)