A Soldier's Play
Author | : Charles Fuller |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 117 |
Release | : 1982-09 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780374521486 |
ISBN-13 | : 0374521484 |
Rating | : 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 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.