A Soldier's Play
Second Stage Theatre
Previews Began: September 20, 2005
Opening Night: October 17, 2005
Closing Night: November 27, 2005
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
James McDaniel Sergeant Vernon C. Waters
Taye Diggs Captain Richard Davenport
Anthony Mackie Private First Class Melvin Peterson
Steven Pasquale Captain Charles Taylor
Dorian Missick Private Louis Henson
Nelsan Ellis Corporal Bernard Cobb
Teagle F. Bougere Private Tony Smalls
Michael Genet Private James Wilkie
Joaquin Perez Campbell Lieutenant Byrd
Royce Johnson Corporal Ellis
Mike Colter Private C.J. Memphis
Joe Forbrich Captain Wilcox
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