A Soldier's Play (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

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 te...