In a segregated army camp in Louisiana in 1944, a black sergeant is shot dead after crying out "they still hate you." As the play examines the murder, the truth of it becomes more shocking and hateful than the murder itself.
David Alan Grier
Sergeant Vernon C. Waters
Blair Underwood
Captain Richard Davenport
Nnamdi Asomugha
Private First Class Melvin Peterson
Jerry O'Connell
Captain Charles Taylor
Rob Demery
Corporal Bernard Cobb
Warner Miller
Corporal Ellis
McKinley Belcher III
Private Louis Henson
Billy Eugene Jones
Private James Wilkie
Jared Grimes
Private Tony Smalls
J. Alphonse Nicholson
Private C.J. Memphis
Nate Mann
Lietuenant Byrd
Lee Aaron Rosen
Captain Wilcox
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