A Soldier’s Play Playbill

Description

This is the program for “A Soldier’s Play,” a 1983 production of the Negro Ensemble Company Inc. There are short bios and black & white photos of the actors, information about the production, etc. The program contains 20 pages and measures approximately 9 x 12 inches.
A Soldier's Play is a play by 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 a 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.