Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue - Softcover

Quiara Alegría Hudes is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Water by the Spoonful, the Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights and the Pulitzer Prize finalist Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue. Her other works include Barrio Grrrl!, a children’s musical; 26 Miles; Yemaya’s Belly and The Happiest Song Plays Last, the third piece in her acclaimed trilogy. Hudes is on the board of Philadelphia Young Playwrights, which produced her first play in the tenth grade. She now lives in New York with her husband and children.

Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue is that rare and rewarding thing: a theater work that succeeds on every level while creating something new. The playwright combines a lyrical ear with a sophisticated sense of structure to trace the legacy of war through three generations of a Puerto Rican family. Without ever invoking current politics, Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue manages to be a deeply poetic, touching, and often funny indictment of the war in Iraq.” Phoebe Hoban, New York Times

A lush and evocative tone poem about the way the landscape of the soul is transformed by war A writer of astonishing lyricism and intellectual rigor.” Atlanta Journal Constitution

Simple, poignant and achingly evocative both utterly realistic and profoundly moving” Jessica Branch, TimeOut New York

Hudes’s story reaches beyond the politics and pressures of this particular conflict to a collection of more universal observations of what war means for the person, the family and the society from generation to generation.” Steven Snyder, The Villager


“Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue is that rare and rewarding thing: a theater work that succeeds on every level while creating something new. The playwright combines a lyrical ear with a sophisticated sense of structure to trace the legacy of war through three generations of a Puerto Rican family. Without ever invoking current politics, Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue manages to be a deeply poetic, touching, and often funny indictment of the war in Iraq.” –Phoebe Hoban, New York Times

“A lush and evocative tone poem about the way the landscape of the soul is transformed by war...A writer of astonishing lyricism and intellectual rigor.” –Atlanta Journal Constitution

“Simple, poignant and achingly evocative...both utterly realistic and profoundly moving” –Jessica Branch, TimeOut New York

“Hudes’s story reaches beyond the politics and pressures of this particular conflict to a collection of more universal observations ― of what war means for the person, the family and the society from generation to generation.” –Steven Snyder, The Villager