It’s extremely difficult to set plays on a battleground and make them feel authentic. Only Shakespeare’s superior talents as a poet and dramatist make credible the battle scenes of his history plays.

So it’s gutsy of Synetic Theater to try to reproduce the horrors of war in “Home of the Soldier.” Ben Cunis has provided a script, which grew out of interviews with soldiers. But the production relies greatly, as do all Synetic’s productions, on a physical rather than a verbal approach to its subject.