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Synopsis
Charles Fuller
Full Length, Drama
Chararcters: 13 male (10 black, 3 white)
Unit Set
In a Louisiana army camp in 1944 Capt. Taylor, the white C.O., has a problem. He commands a black company whose sergeant has been murdered. He is worried the murderer may be a white officer or the local Klan. A black captain is assigned to investigate and Taylor tries to discourage him because he feels the assigning of a black investigator means the case is to be swept under the rug. Capt. Davenport perseveres and, as he probes deeper, he finds the black soldiers are as corrupted with hatred as the whites. Each one had a motive for the killing. Davenport solves the case and the truth is even more shocking than the murder itself.
"A work of great resonance and integrity."-Newsweek
"One of the contemporary American theatre's most forceful and original voices."-NY Times
Winner of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
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Charles Fuller, the author of many award-winning dramas for stage and screen, teaches 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.
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“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
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- PublisherConcord Theatricals
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0573640351
- ISBN 13 9780573640353
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages120
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