A Soldier's Play

Theatre

Name:	Theater Four
Address:	424 West 55th Street, New York, NY 10019

Production Information

Number of performances:	468
Opening date:	November 20, 1981
Closing date:	January 2, 1983

Opening Night Credits

Production Credits

	Person/Company	Credit
	Negro Ensemble Company	Producer
	Douglas Turner Ward	Artistic Director
	Leon B. Denmark	Managing Director

	Charles Fuller	Playwright

	Felix E. Cochren	Set Designer
	Judy Dearing	Costume Designer
	Allen Lee Hughes	Lighting Designer
	Regge Life	Sound Designer

Cast

	Actor	Role
	Charles Brown	Captain Richard Davenport
	Adolph Caesar	Tech/Sergeant Vernon C. Waters
	Peter Friedman	Captain Charles Taylor
	Samuel L. Jackson	Private Louis Henson
	Brent Jennings	Private Tony Smalls
	Steven A. Jones	Private James Wilkie
	Eugene Lee	Corporal Bernard Cobb
	James Pickens Jr.	Corporal Ellis
	Larry Riley	Private C.J. Memphis
	Cotter Smith	Lieutenant Byrd
	Denzel Washington	Private First Class Melvin Peterson
	Stephen Zettler	Captain Wilcox
	James Pickens Jr.	Davenport/Peterson	UNDERSTUDY
	Cotter Smith	Taylor	UNDERSTUDY

Replacement Credits

Cast

	Actor	Role
	David Alan Grier	Private C.J. Memphis

Awards

		Award	Person / Company	Function
1	WON	1982 Drama Critics' Circle Award, Best American Play	Charles Fuller	Playwright
2	WON	1982 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play	Adolph Caesar	Actor
3	WON	1982 Outer Critics Circle Award, Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play
4	WON	1982 Pulitzer Prize, Drama	Charles Fuller	Playwright
5	WON	1981 Clarence Derwent Award	Larry Riley	Actor