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 dramawhich has been regularly seen in both its original stage and its later screen version starring Denzel Washingtontracks 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.
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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 dramawhich has been regularly seen in both its original stage and its later screen version starring Denzel Washingtontracks 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.
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 dramawhich has been regularly seen in both its original stage and its later screen version starring Denzel Washingtontracks 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.
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 dramawhich has been regularly seen in both its original stage and its later screen version starring Denzel Washingtontracks 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.
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780374521486 |
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Publisher: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Publication date: | 09/01/1982 |
Series: | Dramabook Series |
Pages: | 112 |
Sales rank: | 1,081,329 |
Product dimensions: | 5.36(w) x 10.60(h) x 0.33(d) |
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