A Soldier's Play | Critical Overview
In general, A Soldier’s Play received very favorable reviews when it debuted Off-Broadway in November 1981. Critics were enthusiastic and audiences receptive to Fuller’s mystery. For example, Frank Rich’s review in The New York Times, calls Fuller’s play a major breakthrough and ‘‘in every way, a mature and accomplished work.’’ A Soldier’s Play is also ‘‘a relentless investigation into the complex, sometimes cryptic pathology of hate.’’ What Rich calls a ‘‘skillful portraiture of a dozen characters’’ creates ‘‘a remarkable breadth of social...
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