Defiance

Defiance is a play by American playwright John Patrick Shanley. It ran Off-Broadway from February 9, 2006, to June 4, 2006. Background Defiance is the second of three plays of a planned trilogy. Shanley explained that the trilogy "explores specifics of my life story as it overlaps with major changes in the social fabric of this country." Shanley had military duty at Camp Lejeune from 1970 to 1972. Shanley said "In short, Doubt turned into Defiance, which is my second play about American hierarchy". Plot The play concerns a colonel who promotes a black officer solely based on race. The black officer finds out that the colonel has had a brief affair with a private's wife, and he is torn between his desire to go unnoticed and his realization that he must do the right thing.