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A Soldier's Play is a play by American playwright Charles Fuller. Set on a US Army installation in the segregation-era South, the play is a loose adaptation of Herman Melville's novella Billy Budd, and follows the murder investigation of the Sergeant in an all-black unit. The play uses a murder mystery to explore the complicated feelings of anger and resentment that some African Americans have toward one another, and the ways in which many black Americans have absorbed white racist attitudes.

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  • A Soldier's Play is a play by American playwright Charles Fuller. Set on a US Army installation in the segregation-era South, the play is a loose adaptation of Herman Melville's novella Billy Budd, and follows the murder investigation of the Sergeant in an all-black unit. The play uses a murder mystery to explore the complicated feelings of anger and resentment that some African Americans have toward one another, and the ways in which many black Americans have absorbed white racist attitudes. The drama won the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, among other accolades. It was the basis for a 1984 feature film adaptation, A Soldier's Story, for which Fuller wrote the screenplay. (en)
  • A Soldier's Play è un'opera teatrale del drammaturgo statunitense Charles Fuller, vincitrice del Premio Pulitzer per la drammaturgia nel 1982. Il dramma è liberamente tratto dal romanzo postumo di Herman Melville Billy Budd ed utilizza un omicidio per esplorare le complicate relazioni di rabbia e rancore che alcuni afroamericani nutrono nei confronti gli uni degli altri. (it)
  • A Soldier’s Play – sztuka amerykańskiego dramaturga Charlesa Fullera. Fabuła opiera się na wątku kryminalnym, który stanowi pretekst do ukazania wpływu rasizmu na jednostkę. Akcja toczy się w jednostce wojskowej w Luizjanie. Sam autor zaznaczał, że dramat jest oparty na dziele dziewiętnastowiecznego prozaika Hermana Melville’a Billy Budd. Utwór został w 1982 wyróżniony Nagrodą Pulitzera w dziedzinie dramatu. (pl)
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  • Big Mary
  • C.J. Memphis
  • Capt. Davenport
  • Capt. Taylor
  • Capt. Wilcox
  • Col. Nivens
  • Cpl. Cobb
  • Cpl. Ellis
  • Lt. Byrd
  • Pfc. Peterson
  • Pvt. Henson
  • Pvt. Smalls
  • Pvt. Wilkie
  • Sgt. Washington
  • Sgt. Waters
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  • 1981-11-20 (xsd:date)
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  • Fort Neal, Louisiana, in 1944
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  • Cpl. Ellis (en)
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  • Sgt. Waters (en)
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  • A Soldier's Play (en)
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  • A Soldier's Play è un'opera teatrale del drammaturgo statunitense Charles Fuller, vincitrice del Premio Pulitzer per la drammaturgia nel 1982. Il dramma è liberamente tratto dal romanzo postumo di Herman Melville Billy Budd ed utilizza un omicidio per esplorare le complicate relazioni di rabbia e rancore che alcuni afroamericani nutrono nei confronti gli uni degli altri. (it)
  • A Soldier’s Play – sztuka amerykańskiego dramaturga Charlesa Fullera. Fabuła opiera się na wątku kryminalnym, który stanowi pretekst do ukazania wpływu rasizmu na jednostkę. Akcja toczy się w jednostce wojskowej w Luizjanie. Sam autor zaznaczał, że dramat jest oparty na dziele dziewiętnastowiecznego prozaika Hermana Melville’a Billy Budd. Utwór został w 1982 wyróżniony Nagrodą Pulitzera w dziedzinie dramatu. (pl)
  • A Soldier's Play is a play by American playwright Charles Fuller. Set on a US Army installation in the segregation-era South, the play is a loose adaptation of Herman Melville's novella Billy Budd, and follows the murder investigation of the Sergeant in an all-black unit. The play uses a murder mystery to explore the complicated feelings of anger and resentment that some African Americans have toward one another, and the ways in which many black Americans have absorbed white racist attitudes. (en)
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