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Abigail January 22nd, 2020
Charles Fuller's 1981 Pulitzer Prize-winning play finally makes its Broadway debut in this new production from Kenny Leon. But, what did the critics think of this 2020 revival from the Roundabout Theater Company?
The Hollywood Reporter was full of praise for the production saying, "in the hands of director Kenny Leon and terrific ensemble, this period piece about corrosive self-loathing bred out of institutionalized racism remains powerful theater."
Deadline was also full of praise and said that A Soldier's Play was "a bracing slap of a drama, a thoughtful examination of American bigotry and the many tolls it exacts." TimeOut continued the acclaim and dubbed the production "It's a bullet of a play, and it hits its targets."
A Soldier's Play features set design by Derek McLane, lighting design by Allen Lee Hughes and sound design by Dan Moses Schreier. The cast includes David Alan Grier as Sergeant Vernon C. Walters, Blair Underwood as Captain Richard Davenport, Nnamdi Asomugha as Private First Class Melvin Peterson, Jerry O'Connell as Captain Charles Taylor, McKinley Belcher III as Private Louis Henson, Rob Demery as Corporal Bernard Cobb, Jared Grimes as Private Tony Smalls, Billy Eugene Jones as Private James Wilkie, Nate Mann as Lieutenant Byrd, Warner Miller as Corporal Ellis, J. Alphonse Nicholson as Private C. J. Memphis and Lee Aaron Rosen as Captain Wilcox.
Part military drama, part whodunit, part courtroom procedural, the story takes place within the racially segregated US Army base in Fort Neal, Louisiana in the mid-40s. When an African American sergeant by the name of Vernon Waters is murdered, Captain Richard Davenport, an African American army officer (a rarity), is called upon to investigate the death, commencing a whirlwind of gripping tension that rises and envelops the audience in its frank examination of racial stereotypes and relations.
A Soldier's Play is now playing at the American Airlines Theater until March 15.
a bracing slap of a drama, a thoughtful examination of American bigotry and the many tolls it exacts
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