A Soldier's Play
A Play
Farrar Straus & Giroux · Print & ebook · September 1, 1982
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.
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- Who it’s for
- A murder investigation opens onto racial tensions and ambiguities, with no easy answers.
- Themes
- Racial tensions, Racial ambiguity, Murder investigation
- Genres
- African American Plays, American Plays, Cultural Diversity
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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.
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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.
Beyond the Case
A murder investigation opens onto racial tensions and ambiguities, with no easy answers.
Come here for
- Mystery entwined with questions of race and blame
- A drama with moral complexity rather than simple verdicts
Expect
- A forceful play set in a segregated army camp
- An investigation that reaches beyond its central crime
Where it sits
| African American Plays | 92% |
|---|---|
| Cultural Diversity | 43% |
| American Plays | 27% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- African American Plays
- Cultural Diversity
- Political & Protest Drama
- Authors
- Charles Fuller
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus & Giroux
- Published
- September 1, 1982
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Racial tensions · Racial ambiguity · Murder investigation
- Reading lane
- African American Plays