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Charles Fuller

CHARLES FULLER  (1939 - )

 Nationality:    African-American
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Literary Agent:    Creative Artists Agency CA  


Charles H. Fuller, Jr. (born 5 March 1939) is an American playwright, best known for his play, a Soldier's Play, for which he received the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

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below is a list of Charles Fuller's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Brownsville Raid, The         Candidate         Eliot's Coming         First Love         In My Many Names And Days         In The Deepest Part Of Sleep         Jonquil         Lay Out Letter, The         Perfect Party         Prince Under The Umbrella         Rise, The         Sally         Sarah Love Sweet Sarah Love         Soldier's Play, A         Sparrow In Flight         Sunflower Majorette         Sunflowers, The         Untitled Play         Village, The: A Party         We         Zooman And The Sign

Brownsville Raid, The

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Waterford, Connecticut    1975

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Candidate

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New York    1974

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Eliot's Coming

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in Urban Blight

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New York    1988

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Musical revue

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First Love

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New York    1974

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In My Many Names And Days

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New York    1972

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In The Deepest Part Of Sleep

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New York    1974

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Jonquil

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New York    1990

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Lay Out Letter, The

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Philadelphia    1975

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Perfect Party

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Prince Under The Umbrella

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Rise, The

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Some of the activities of Marcus Garvey as he combatted Negro politicians and agitated whites in Harlem

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Harlem School of the arts, New York    1974

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New Plays from the Black Theater, ed. by Ed Bullins, New York: Bantam, 1969   -

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Genre:
Historical Drama

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Sally

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Sarah Love Sweet Sarah Love

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Concerns the love affair of a woman who has left the South and tries to make it in Philadelphia in 1936

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Domestic Comedy

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Soldier's Play, A

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at the height of World War II, tensions were brewing overseas as U.S. armed Forces engaged in a fight for freedom. Yet, at home, many individuals within U.S. armed Forces were engaged in another fight: the fight for equality. This fight is the backdrop of this timeless piece which delves into the investigation of a murdered officer on a military base in Tynin, Louisiana.
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Music And lyrics by Larry Riley;

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Lucille Lortel Theatre, New York    20 Nov 1981

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Samuel French, NY, 1981   -

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Drama with music

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Sparrow In Flight

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music Larry Garner, concept Rosetta LeNoire

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New York    1978

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Sunflower Majorette

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Concerns a woman who is in love with a married man who has just left her apartment

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Sunflowers, The

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General title for A series of plays

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Untitled Play

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Concerns a woman whose long lost lover comes to claim her after many years

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1st Produced:
afro-American Arts Theatre, Philadelphia, Pa    1971

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Domestic Drama One act

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Village, The: A Party

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aka The Perfect Party

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Princetown, New Jersey    1968

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We

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includes Sally, Prince

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New York    1988

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Zooman And The Sign

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Zooman is scary, he is a black teen in Philadelphia who senselessly terrorises blacks and whites, eventually the community reluctantly acts against him

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1st Produced:
New York    1980

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Samuel French Inc, New York, 1979   -

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Play/Drama

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Male:  6            Female:  3            Other:  -

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