A Soldier's Play [antikvár]

time: 1944place: Fort Neal, Louisianascene: The inner shell of the stage is black. On the stage, in a horseshoe-like half circle, are several platforms at varying levels.On the left side of this horseshoe is a military office arrangement with a small desk (a nameplate on the desk reads: captain charles taylorj^ two office-type chairs, one straight-backed, a regimental, and an American flag. A picture of F.D.R. is on the wall.On the right side of the horseshoe, and curved toward the rear, is a barracks arrangement, with three bunk beds and footlockers set in typical military fashion. The exit to this barracks is a freestanding doorway on the far right. (This barracks should be changeablethese bunks with little movement can look like a different place.) On the edge of this barracks is a poster, semi-blown up, of Joe Louis in an army uniform, helmet, rifle, and bayonet. It reads: pvt. joe louis says, "we're going to do our part-and we'll win because we're on GOD'S side."On the rear of the horseshoe, upstage center, is a bare platform, raised several feet above everything else. It can be anything we want it to bea limbo if you will.The entire set should resemble a courtroom. The sets, barracks and office, will both be elevated, so that from anywhere on the horseshoe one may look down onto a space at center stage that is on the stage floor. The levels should have easy access by either stairs or ramps, and the entire set should be raked ever so slightly