![]() ![]() You need to learn respect - how to talk to your betters. And when you come out, I'm going to whip your Black, Southern a** - let the whole company watch, too. Waters) I'm going outside to wait for you, geechy. But in the end, Fuller said to NPR in 2008, even the sergeant realizes that everything he's done adds up to nothing.įULLER: I don't know of any character that I can think of in Black literature that has created that kind of impact and that kind of animosity.ĭAVID ALAN GRIER: (As Sergeant Vernon C. He's a self-loathing Black man who makes a show of being deferential to the white officers. We learn in flashbacks that the sergeant has bullied his squad. But underneath, it's a complex look at race and power in America. LUNDEN: The play is set in a Black barracks on an Army base in Louisiana in 1944. KENNY LEON: I think it's a great play, you know. LUNDEN: Kenny Leon directed the Tony Award-winning revival just before the pandemic. But you got to admit that it took a long time. Charles Fuller attended the opening night, as he told NPR.ĬHARLES FULLER: It was wonderful to see on Broadway. JEFF LUNDEN, BYLINE: Despite winning a Pulitzer in 1982, "A Soldier's Play," which was presented successfully off-Broadway, didn't make it to Broadway until 2020. Fuller was best known for "A Soldier's Play," which was turned into an Oscar-nominated film, "A Soldier's Story." Jeff Lunden has this remembrance. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Charles Fuller died on Monday in Toronto. ![]()
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