Teatro Paraguas is proud to present Elliot: A Soldier’s Fugue, written by playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes and directed by Alix Hudson.

It is the lyrical and moving first part of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Elliot Trilogy. Moving a-chronologically through six decades and three generations, Elliot centers around protagonist Elliot Ortiz (Luca Pacheco) and his life as a Marine during and after a tour in Iraq. When he is back home in Philadelphia, he struggles to make sense of his life in interviews with the press, and attempts to communicate with his father (Niko’a Salas). Woven into his experiences are the narratives of his Marine father and Army Nurse mother, Ginny (Juliet Salazar), in the Vietnam War, and his Korean War veteran grandfather (Rudy Fernandez). The four people speak to us with frankness about their truths of war even as they often fail to convey them to one another.