Located in Fort Polk’s Military Base, Louisiana ‘The Box’ is a unique training area which prepares 5,000 soldiers a month for deployment in Iraq and Afghanistan. This is the dress rehearsal for war in which Hollywood set designers are called in to create a realistic Middle Eastern village set and local Louisianans are employed as actors to play village residents. After 10 years of continuous war and continuous coverage, Ashley Gilbertson’s Dress Rehearsal takes a fresh approach to documenting the conflict.