The film version starred a young Denzel Washington, who had appeared in its first stage incarnation in New York alongside Samuel L. The work has attracted a who’s who of Black acting talent. “I’d just like to be considered a playwright fortunate enough to have written a ‘hit,’ and who wants to keep on writing plays that break through the wall,″ he told The New York Times in 1982. The play won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1982 and two years later was made into the Oscar-nominated best picture “A Soldier’s Story,” for which Fuller wrote the screenplay and earned an Oscar nomination. It dissected entrenched racism as well as internal divisions in the Black military community, wrapping it in a murder mystery. In one review of his work, The New York Times said “clichés of form, plot and character shatter like skeets at a shooting range.”įuller’s most famous work, “A Soldier’s Play,” used a military setting in its tale of the search for the murderer of a Black sergeant on an Army base in Louisiana during World War II.
“The best way to dispel stereotypes and massive lies is telling something as close to the truth as you can,” Fuller told Newsday.
Fuller died of natural causes on Monday in Toronto, said his wife, Claire Prieto-Fuller.įuller’s plays were filled with complex characters and an undercutting of conventions.
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