Tonight I got a last minute ticket to A Soldier’s Play starring Taye Diggs.
It was an incredible play centered around a murder investigation on a Louisiana Army base during World War II. The victim, Sergeant Vernon Waters, is a black NCO. The investigator sent by the Army is a black officer (Taye Digg’s role) is forced to square off against Waters’s white commander. It confronts prejudice and internal racism.
The play was also the made into a movie years ago. I haven’t seen it, but I’m told that if I watch I’ll see a lot of African-American actor’s making their film debuts – including Denzel Washington.
Visit: http://www.secondstagetheatre.com/soldier/
