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A Soldier's Play

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and "lazy, shiftless Negroes" reflected poorly on him, and made it harder for other African-Americans to succeed. For that reason, Waters persecuted black soldiers like Private C.J. Memphis, whose broad grin and jive talk made Waters' blood boil. Waters' cruelty and vindictiveness drove Memphis to
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As Davenport interviews witnesses and suspects, we see flashbacks showing what Sergeant Waters was like, and how he treated his men. The light-skinned Waters was highly intelligent and extremely ambitious, and loathed black men who conformed to old-fashioned racist stereotypes. Waters dreamed of
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Shortly before he was murdered, Waters came to realize how futile and foolish his lifelong attempts to behave like a white man had been. His dying words, "They still hate you," reflected his belated understanding that white hatred and disdain of black men like himself had nothing to do with
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Fort Neal, Louisiana, in 1944 during the time when the military was racially segregated. In the opening scene, the audience witnesses the murder of black Sergeant Vernon Waters by an unseen shooter. Just before his death, Waters utters the enigmatic cry, "They still hate you!"
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at the Theater Four (now called the Julia Miles Theater). It opened on November 20, 1981, and closed on January 2, 1983, after 468 performances. The original cast included
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The Valiant Theatre Company presented the play Off-Broadway at Theatre Four from November 19, 1996, to December 8. Directed by Clinton Turner Davis, the cast featured
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sending his own children to an elite college where they would associate with white students, rather than with other blacks. In Waters' mind,
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Captain Richard Davenport, a rare black Army officer, has been sent to investigate the killing. Initially, the primary suspects are local
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stereotypical black behavior, and that whites would probably always hate him, no matter how hard he tried to emulate "white" ways.
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as Captain Davenport. The director was Douglas Turner Ward. The play won, in addition to the Pulitzer Prize, the
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from September 20, 2005 (previews), opening on October 17, 2005, and closing on November 27, 2005. Directed by
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have toward one another, and the ways in which many black Americans have absorbed white racist attitudes.
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suicide, which alienated the rest of Waters' men, and turned them hopelessly against him.
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will be adapting the play into a limited television series titled
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presented the play's Broadway debut in January 2020, starring
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Index

A Soldier's Story
Charles Fuller
Negro Ensemble Company
New York City, New York
Charles Fuller
US Army
segregation
South
Herman Melville
Billy Budd
African Americans
1982
Pulitzer Prize for Drama
A Soldier's Story
United States Army's
Ku Klux Klansmen
Uncle Toms
Off-Broadway
Negro Ensemble Company
Adolph Caesar
Denzel Washington
Larry Riley
Samuel L. Jackson
Peter Friedman
Charles Brown
Outer Critics Circle Award
New York Drama Critics' Circle
Obie Award
Wood Harris
Albert Hall

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