Military courtroom drama brings the politics of war to the Ipswich Little Theatre stage this month.

IN THE late 1800s, prospectors exploring a far-flung tract of land in South Africa unearthed vast deposits of diamonds and gold, providing the bloody backdrop for two brutal wars that were fought on what had been one of the more unremarkable pieces in the jigsaw of the British Empire.

What came next, in the crucible of the Second Anglo-Boer War, would tarnish