"It has been my greatest honor to perform his words on both stage and screen, his genius will be missed," Grier tweeted in mourning.īorn in Philadelphia, Fuller attended Villanova University and then joined the Army in 1959, serving in Japan and South Korea. It dissected entrenched racism as well as internal divisions in the Black military community, wrapping it in a murder mystery.įLASHBACK (): 'A Soldier's Play' Opening On Broadway Nearly 40 Years After Its Off-Broadway Premiere
In one review of his work, The New York Times said "clichés of form, plot and character shatter like skeets at a shooting range."įLASHBACK (): 'A Soldier's Play' Is As Relevant Today As It Was During World War IIįuller'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. He was 83.įuller 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. NEW YORK - Charles Fuller, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of the searing and acclaimed "A Soldier's Play" who often explored and exposed how social institutions can perpetuate racism, has died.
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