Daily News | Forty years on, Charles Fuller’s ‘A Soldier’s Play is relevant as ever
While the play’s ostensible plot is about an investigation of a Black army sergeant on a segregated U.S. Army, in Louisiana in 1944, the larger elements of the play are about intra-racial conflict and classism.went to Broadway. The play’s issues gain added prominence at a time when much of America has been challenged.
There are also interracial confrontations and violence between Black soldiers and the white soldiers and officers at the base.on Broadway. Norm Lewis plays Capt. Davenport, the Army lawyer sent to Louisiana to investigate the murder of a Black sergeant, who was hated by his men. Eugene Lee, who was part of the original 1981 cast, then playing one of the young Black soldiers, plays Sgt. Waters in the current production.
“It’s like going full circle,” Lee, who is still finding nuances to this play 40 years later, said. “He’s a really conflicted man. As one of the other characters says about him: ‘Any man who don’t know where he belongs has got to be in a whole lot of pain,” Lee said, calling Sgt. Waters “a spit and polish soldier. He’s abandoned self love and replaces it with a kind of self hate.”
The Black soldiers in the play all got into the army believing they would be accepted by Americans. “They are thinking, if we fight for our country, then the dominant culture will accept us as equals,” Lewis said. But they find out that’s not true.
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