Here's the second part of Justin Haigh adventure at Toronto’s Next Stage Festival. The Festival finishes this weekend.

Gas
This intense play from writer/director Jason Maghanoy presents a familiar yet contemporary depiction of modern warfare (in this case using Iraq as his creative sandbox) by incorporating age-old ideas, such as the hyper-masculine soldier, as well as relatively new ones, such as the importance of the unfiltered recorded image (an idea that also played an important role in Maghanoy’s last play, Dust). Gas is splintered into two narratives; the first of a unit whose chain of command is thrown...