Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue

Immigration and the Experience of Transition is curated by Marcy Arlin from the Immigrant Theatre Project and Ian Morgan from The New Group. Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue is the first in a series of four readings exploring immigration and the experience of transition in our society. The reading will be followed by a discussion with the playwright and director.

Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue, by Quiara Alegría Hudes, directed by Michael Garcés
The play, through lyrical “fugues” and “preludes” in the form of letters and narrative, follows three generations of military men in a Puerto Rican-American family. In the family’s run-down barrio vegetable garden, Elliot, the son, returning as a wounded hero from Iraq, craves a conversation with his father, who served in Vietnam, and his grandfather, who fought in Korea, about the realities of war. This causes the three to reveal their never-spoken stories of war horror and family love.