A Few Good Men | |
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![]() The cast of A Few Good Men at the Haymarket Theatre, London in 2005 | |
Written by | Aaron Sorkin |
Place premiered | John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. |
Original language | English |
Subject | Military justice |
Genre | Courtroom drama |
Setting | Summer 1986 Guantanamo Bay Naval Base General court-martial in Washington, D.C. |
A Few Good Men is a play by Aaron Sorkin, first produced on Broadway by David Brown in 1989. It tells the story of military lawyers at a court-martial who uncover a high-level conspiracy in the course of defending their clients, two United States Marines accused of murder.
It opened on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre in New York on November 15, 1989, in a production directed by Don Scardino, with Tom Hulce as Lieutenant Junior Grade Daniel Kaffee, Megan Gallagher as Lieutenant commander Joanne Galloway, and Stephen Lang as Colonel Jessep. Michael O'Hare replaced Lang as Jessep later in the run.
Sorkin adapted his work into a screenplay for the 1992 film of the same name.