A Soldier's Play
2021
1 hr 41 min
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In a segregated army camp in Louisiana in 1944, a black sergeant is shot dead after crying out "they still hate you." As the play examines the murder, the truth of it becomes more shocking and hateful than the murder itself.
Top Cast
David Alan Grier as Sergeant Vernon C. Waters
Blair Underwood as Captain Richard Davenport
Nnamdi Asomugha as Private First Class Melvin Peterson
Jerry O'Connell as Captain Charles Taylor
Rob Demery as Corporal Bernard Cobb
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