A Soldier's Play

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.

Author: Charles Fuller
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Published: 09/01/1982
Series: Dramabook
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.20w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780374521486