

A Soldier's Play
Charles Fuller
Awards & Recognition
Winner! 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Winner! 2020 Tony Award, Best Revival of a Play
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.
"One of the contemporary American theatre's most forceful and original voices."
— The New York Times
| Character |
|---|
| Captain Charles Taylor |
| Corporal Bernard Cobb |
| Private First Class Melvin Peterson |
| Corporal Ellis |
| Private Louis Henson |
| Private James Wilkie |
| Private Tony Smalls |
| Captain Richard Davenport |
| Private C.J. Memphis |
| Lieutenant Byrd |
| Captain Wilcox |
| Tech/Sergeant Vernon C. Waters |
A Soldier's Play-Nick Pascarella
A Soldier's Play is a American play written by Charles Fuller and published by Samuel French in New York (2011).
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