A Soldier's Play

Charles Fuller

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 1982

A black sergeant cries out in the night, "They still hate you," then is shot twice and falls dead.

Set in 1944 at Fort Neal, a segregated army camp in Louisiana, Charles Fuller's forceful drama--which has been regularly seen in both its original stage and its later screen version starring Denzel Washington--tracks the investigation of this murder. But A Soldier's Play is more than a detective story: it is a tough, incisive exploration of racial tensions and ambiguities among blacks and between blacks and whites that gives no easy answers and assigns no simple blame.

Book Details

Publisher: Hill & Wang
Publish Date: Sep 1st, 1982
Pages: 112
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 7.80in - 5.20in - 0.40in - 0.25lb
EAN: 9780374521486
Categories: • American - African American & Black• Subjects & Themes - Diversity & Multicultural• Subjects & Themes - Political & Protest

About the Author

Fuller, Charles: - Charles Fuller, the author of many award-winning dramas for stage and screen, taught Afro-American studies at Temple University. He won the Pulitzer Prize for A Soldier's Play, as well as an Academy Award nomination for his screen adaptation, A Soldier's Story, starring Denzel Washington. He died in 2022 at the age of eighty-three.

Praise for this book

"A powerful drama...skillfully wrought...one of the most evenhanded, penetrating studies that we have yet seen." --Edwin Wilson, The Wall Street Journal

"A relentless investigation into the complex, sometimes cryptic pathology of hate...A mature and accomplished work--from its inspired opening up of conventional theatrical form to its skillful portraiture of a dozen characters to its remarkable breadth of social and historical vision...Mr. Fuller's play tirelessly insists on embracing volatile contradictions because that is the way to arrive at the shattering truth." --Frank Rich, The New York Times

"A complex and rewarding play [by] a playwright of great sensibility." --Clive Barnes, New York Post

"A work of great resonance and integrity..." --Jack Kroll, Newsweek