a note from ARTISTIC DIRECTOR


By Charles Fuller Directed by Kenny Leon


1944. A Black Sergeant is murdered on a Louisiana Army base, and one tenacious investigator must race against his white leadership to unravel the crime before they unravel him.


Set on a Louisiana Army base during the dark depths of World War II, A Soldier’s Play explores the tensions inherent in a search for truth. When a Black Sergeant is murdered, Captain Richard Davenport journeys deep into the psyches of the men of Fort Neal. Capt. Davenport must investigate soldiers who look like him, while scrutinized and challenged by an establishment that doesn’t. In doing so, he comes face to face with the injustices of the system confronting both himself and the men he encounters—both structural and self-imposed. The result is staggering, deeply unsettling, and profoundly truthful.


a Black man in his late twenties, wearing glasses, a model soldier to the other men


a Black lawyer and military officer attached to the 343d Military Police Corps Unit


a young Black man from Mississippi; a musician


a Black man in his early forties, a career soldier, dressed in fatigues from which the stripes have been removed by Waters


a Black soldier who is simply always "spit and polish," thorough and detailed


a white, spit and polish soldier in his twenties


a Black man his late twenties or early thirties. Pitcher on the baseball team


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a white medical officer


a Black Sergeant who manages the baseball team


a Black man in his mid to late twenties, closest to CJ and unmoved by Waters’s death


a white man in his mid to late thirties who resents Davenport’s assignment and rank


a Black man in his late thirties, a career soldier


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