A compelling new play by anna jordan yen – royal court theatre, bruntwood prize for playwriting 2013, directed by neil bettles associate director of frantic assembly and featuring frantic’s celebrated physicality, the unreturning explores the profound effect that war has on young lives, and asks – what does coming home really mean? What is home? And when experience has shattered you into a million pieces, will home help to put you together again, or treat you as an ugly truth it does not want to confront? Can beginnings be made out of endings? In a british northern coastal town, three young men are coming home. In 1918 george returns from the western front. In 2013 frankie is back from his final tour of afghanistan. And some time in the not too distant future nat returns from an overseas refugee camp to what was his hometown.