Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue, Review
-- Edge New York

Purple Heartbeat, A tender symphony of soldiers' voices
-- Village Voice

Everything Old Is New Again
-- NY Sun

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Elliot, a Soldier's Fugue Returns to Manhattan
-- Playbill.com

"Elliot, a Soldier's Fugue is that rare and rewarding thing: a theater work that succeeds on every level, while creating something new...Ms. Hudes already possesses a confident and arresting voice... The original tone and tempo of the play are immediately established as the unseen Elliot is evoked by his grandfather; his passionate gardener mother, Ginny and his father."
-- The New York Times, Read the full review.

"In Quiara Alegria Hudes's intriguing new play, the title character ... shares what it's like to be a Marine in Iraq .... Simple, poignant and achingly evocative, these sequences are both utterly realistic and profoundly moving... Hudes's achievement lies in making their taciturnity speak volumes."
-- Time Out New York

"... rich patchwork of four distinct memories, each steeped in issues of heritage, history and the concept of heroism..."
--The Villager, Read the full review.

"...Hudes demonstrates the senselessness of war and its ironies without ever directly commenting... Director Davis McCallum has orchestrated this theatrical fugue for Page 73 Productions so that it ebbs and flows with grace and poignancy. As Fugue moves towards its simple, yet deeply moving conclusion, audiences become entranced by this very human drama."
--American Theater Web

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"Glorious... Breathtaking prose... reveal[ing] suppressed feeling, obliquely expressing emotion like any soldier might when he tries to stay tough in the face of horror."
-- Variety

"It's rare for me to walk away from a play feeling as strongly affected by the directing as I was by the writing, but that's exactly what happened here. The play is intriguing and tells an important story on its own merits..."
-- NewYorkTheatre.com, Read the full review.

"[T]he beautiful lighting design of Joel Moritz... [the] elegiac music of Michael Friedman and Davis McCallum's direction sustain the poetic mood throughout..."
-- Backstage

"Quiara Alegrķa Hudes' new play, Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue, offers a grunt-level voice to the unheard not just of this generation's war, but of Vietnam and Korea as well. Weaving the war stories of three generations of the North Philadelphia Ruiz family, Hudes' Elliot crafts an interwoven elegy that is testament more to identity than horror, familial connection than political resistance. By opting not to shade her story as either pro-occupation or antiwar, the whole of Hudes' play becomes something larger than its individual parts: a meditation upon the cyclical nature of destruction and renewal that is (masculine) human nature..."
-- The Brooklyn Rail, Read the full article.