Treble Fringe First winning, San Francisco-based The Riot Group won every major award at the Edinburgh Festival 2003 with this soaring and timely premiere dissecting the American military’s hunt for evil in foreign lands. Pugilist Specialist introduces four highly-trained American Marines who are assigned the task of eliminating a troublesome Middle Eastern leader. The play unfolds in a series of field recordings detailing the planning, execution and mishandling of modern political assassination. Pugilist Specialist opened at the Soho Theatre and Writers’ Centre in January 2004 at the start of a three-month national tour. The company also made its professional American debut in New York in September 2004, and toured internationally.