A Soldier’s Play
A Soldier’s Play by Charles Fuller is a powerful drama published by Macmillan in September 1982. This edition spans 100 pages and is presented in English. The narrative begins with a black sergeant’s haunting cry, “They still hate you,” followed by his murder at a segregated army camp in Louisiana during 1944. The play delves into the investigation surrounding this crime, offering a complex examination of racial tensions and the intricacies of identity within the military context.
Readers will find that A Soldier’s Play goes beyond a mere detective story, engaging with themes of race and ambiguity among African American soldiers and their interactions with white counterparts. Fuller’s work challenges audiences to confront uncomfortable truths without providing straightforward resolutions. This edition invites readers to reflect on the historical and social dynamics of the time, making it a significant contribution to American drama.
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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. 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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