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Production Requirements: A Costume Plot Database
Play Title: A Soldier's Play

Title:  A Soldier's Play
Playwright:  Fuller, Charles  Publisher:  Samuel French
Year  1981  Genre:  Drama
Period:  20thC1940s  Number of Acts/Scenes  0
Passage of time:  flashback through four year
Basic Plot:  "Captain Davenport, a black commissioned officer, has been put on the case of a black army sergeant's brutal murder at a fort in Luisianna, the heart of klan country in 1944."
Contributor's Name:  Markisha Cobourne
Contributor's Email:  
Budget:  
Producing Organization:  
Cast Size As Written
  Male Actors:  12
  Male Chorus Actors:  0
Total Male Actors:  12
Number of Characters as Written
  Male Characters:  12
  Male Chorus Characters:  1
Total Male Characters:  13
Costume Numbers as Written
  Male Costumes:  22
  Male Chorus Costumes:  0
Total Male Costumes:  22
Actual Cast Size (if produced)
  Male Actors:  0
  Male Chorus Actors:  0
Total Male Actors:  0
Costume Numbers (if produced)
  Male Costumes:  0
  Male Chorus Costumes:  0
Total Male Costumes:  0
  Female Actors:  0
  Female Chorus Actors:  12
Total Female Actors:  12
 
  Female Characters:  0
  Female Chorus Characters:  0
Total Female Characters:  0
 
  Female Costumes:  0
  Female Chorus Costumes:  0
Total Female Costumes:  0

  Female Actors:  0
  Female Chorus Actors:  0
Total Female Actors:  0
 
  Female Costumes:  0
  Female Chorus Costumes:  0
Total Female Costumes:  0
Notes on possible reduction/expansion of characters/costumes:  N/A
Quick Changes:  2 (Waters and Peterson)
Specialty/Special effects costumes required:  Waters- costume double, shot in the head on stage in Act I
Other important notes:  WWII uniforms

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