A Soldier's Play
Theater Four
Previews Began: -
Opening Night: November 20, 1981
Closing Night: January 2, 1983
Playwright: Charles Fuller
In this drama about black/white race relations, no easy answers about cause or blame are provided, when in 1944 in a segregated army camp in Louisiana, a black sergeant is shot dead after crying out “They still hate you.” As the play examines the murder, the truth of it becomes more shocking and hateful than the murder itself.
CAST
OPENING NIGHT
Charles Brown Captain Richard Davenport
Adolph Caesar Sergeant Vernon C. Waters
Peter Friedman Captain Charles Taylor
Samuel L. Jackson Private Louis Henson
Brent Jennings Private Tony Smalls
Steven A. Jones Private James Wilkie
Eugene Lee Corporal Bernard Cobb
James Pickens Jr. Corporal Ellis
Larry Riley Private C.J. Memphis
Cotter Smith Lieutenant Byrd
Denzel Washington Private First Class
Melvin Peterson
Stephen Zettler Captain Wilcox
Understudies: James Pickens Jr. (Captain Richard Davenport, Private First Class Melvin Peterson), Cotter Smith (Captain Charles Taylor)
REPLACEMENTS
David Alan Grier Private C.J. Memphis
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