A Soldier's Play

Event Details

Time: October 31, 2013 at 8pm to November 2, 2013 at 12pm
Location: Roxbury Repertory Theatre
Street: 1234 Columbus Avenue
City/Town: Boston
Website or Map: https://www.facebook.com/page…
Phone: 617-541-5380
Event Type: play
Organized By: Daver Morrison
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Event Description

BOSTON ARTS REVIEW

QUICK TAKE REVIEW

By Beverly Creasey

A SOLDIER’S PLAY (@ Roxbury Repertory Theater through Nov. 2^nd) is an eloquent whodunit of the first order which takes place in a segregated army unit in the South during WWII. A sergeant has been shot and lynched and there’s talk about involvement of the KKK.

Charles Fuller’s A SOLDIER’S PLAY, although it was written some 30 years ago, seems just as relevant today for its themes of discrimination and corruption in the military. Fuller sets the play before true integration in the armed services so you have African-American troops under white leadership when the story begins. As we know, racism is still pervasive today …and now you can add sexism to the –isms which haunt the military. What makes Fuller’s play unique is how racism is turned inward to feed on the soul.

Television and stage veteran Daver Morrison leads the cast as the army lawyer assigned to investigate the murder. Morrison gives a powerful performance as the cool captain who never loses his head, even when white superior officers try to have him dismissed from the case for being Black.

If you’ve seen the play before, you haven’t seen it like this. Director Marshall Hughes employs ingenious shadow play (on stage and on the side walls of the theater) to ratchet up the suspense and amplify the brutality in the piece, making it much more visceral.

-- Beverly Creasey

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