Word: soldiering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grace vs. Glenda Jackson's vulpine ferocity, his moody introspection vs. her forthright speech and action. Alas, what sounds like explosive chemistry proves inert. The missing catalyst is a directorial idea of what the play is about, a point of view. From the opening declamatory rant of a wounded soldier to the final hortatory hollowness of the youth who supplants Macbeth, volume substitutes for meaning. This fish stinks from the head: Plummer copes with the poetry of "tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow" by denaturing it in monotone; Jackson distracts attention from her shrillness by twitching, fidgeting, and slithering her hands...
...Soldier's Play...
Overall Benston and cast make the audience stand up and salute their performance. Despite some minor defects, this version of A Soldier's Play is a major piece of entertainment...
DIRECTOR Timothy Benston reinstated the draft and transformed 12 ordinary Harvard students into enlisted men when the group appeared in Charles Fuller's A Soldier's Play at the Agassiz Theatre last weekend...
...base during World War II centers around the continuing struggle of a Black officer, Captain Richard Davenport, to receive the respect that his rank deserves, and the lost struggle of another Black officer, Sergeant Vernon C. Waters, who failed to maintain his dignity as a man or as a soldier. The plot consists of Davenport's investigation of Waters' murder and the added tensions it imposes upon the all Black company of army soldiers and their white commanding officers...