num_pages: 120
description: Charles Fuller Full Length, Drama 13 male (10 black, 3 white) Unit Set In a Louisiana army camp in 1944 Capt. Taylor, the white C.O., has a problem. He commands a black company whose sergeant has been murdered. He is worried the murderer may be a white officer or the local Klan. A black captain is assigned to investigate and Taylor tries to discourage him because he feels the assigning of a black investigator means the case is to be swept under the rug. Capt.
language: English
title: A Soldier's Play
titlecomplete: A Soldier's Play
genres: Theatre, School, Drama, Plays, Race, Classics, Mystery, War, Fiction, World War II
ratings_count: 507
awards: awardedAt: 378720000000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Drama, awardedAt: 378720000000
name: New York Drama Critics' Circle Award
category: Best American Play
publisher: Samuel French, Inc.