{"id":136960,"date":"2022-01-13T14:40:18","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T21:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=136960"},"modified":"2024-02-07T15:56:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T22:56:20","slug":"elliot-a-soldiers-fugue-opens-january-27-at-ent-center-for-the-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=136960","title":{"rendered":"“Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue” opens January 27 at Ent Center for the Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Just the Facts:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

“Elliot, A Soldier\u2019s Fugue” runs at the Ent Center for the Arts at UCCS on Thursdays (7:30 pm.), Fridays (7:30 p.m.), Saturdays (2 p.m., 7:30 p.m.), and Sundays (4 p.m.) from Jan. 27\u2013Feb. 13, 2022<\/strong>. Find tickets online.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About “Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue”<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m a Marine. Who are you?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than five minutes into Theatreworks\u2019 production of \u201cElliot, A Soldier\u2019s Fugue,\u201d the title character squares off with an invisible mirror \u2014 but despite his assertion, Elliot is not just a Marine. He is a Puerto Rican American, a third-generation combat veteran, a native Philadelphian, an 18-year-old with a wounded leg and a decision to make. Home with his family following a tour in Iraq, Elliot weighs inheritance, duty, love and legacy as he debates whether to re-enlist for a second tour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pulitzer Prize winner Quiara Alegr\u00eda Hudes, book author of “In The Heights,” wrote the play after hours of in-depth interviews with her own Puerto Rican military family, and the result is a poignant image of the often invisible costs of war. Tracking the family members\u2019 deployments in Korea, Vietnam and Iraq, the play also explores the history of service and the bonds forged across generations, through the stories they share and the ones they can’t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The cast and creative team of “Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue” features largely artists of the Latin community, reflecting the play’s origins in the military experiences of writer Quiara Alegr\u00eda Hudes’ family.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Theatreworks\u2019 production leans into the many experiences represented in the script. The cast and creative team features largely artists of the Latin community, including Puerto Rican actor Luis Sebasti\u00e1n Borges, who leads the cast as Elliot. A.B. Lugo (Pop), Angelo Mendez (Grandpop) and Chelley Canales (Ginny) round out the rest of the Ortiz family. Director Julio Agustin is thrilled to work with the design team (Frank Oliva, Carlos Flores, Alexandra V\u00e1squez Dheming, Anne Toewe, and Marie Verdu) to create an immersive theatrical experience, integrating Puerto Rican culture and other sensory elements of the play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Agustin puts it, “[This story] is meant to be seen and heard, but also smelled, felt and even tasted. I hope to be able to provide audiences with the opportunity to immerse themselves fully in the evening’s event of food, music, movement and story.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The production also offers many opportunities for the local community to connect with the military stories represented in the play. In addition to military consultants during the rehearsal process, Theatreworks has partnered with Max Shulman and the HomeFront Theatre Project to coordinate audience engagement with veterans and service members to contextualize the play and open a broader dialogue about the experiences of veterans and their families. The Veteran\u2019s Health and Trauma team at UCCS\u2019 Lyda Hill Institute for Human Resilience have also provided speakers and conversations leaders for the production. A full roster of scheduled chats and speakers can be found on the Theatreworks website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Colorado Springs, a community filled with military experiences as well as Latin American heritage, \u201cElliot, A Soldier\u2019s Fugue\u201d offers at once a familiar and revelatory look at the legacies that form the fabric of the Pikes Peak region. In Agustin\u2019s words, \u201cAs the son of Puerto Rican immigrants and the child of a Vietnam veteran, there are many moments in the piece that resonate with me on a visceral level \u2014 most of all, honoring those who came before us and seeking to understand the \u2018why\u2019 behind their life\u2019s decisions. [But] what the audience is meant to take away is quite individual, and something I look forward to learning from them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purchase tickets<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Tickets to \u201cElliot, a Soldier\u2019s Fugue\u201d may be purchased online at entcenterforthearts.org<\/a> or by phone at 719-255-8181. Performances begin Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022 and continue through Sunday, Feb. 13. Tickets start at $21. The Ent Center offers a standard military discount of 10% on all productions. UCCS students always receive free admission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seating is set up in socially distanced pods of two; if you require an odd number of seats (one, three, five, etc.), please contact the Box Office via\u00a0tickets@uccs.edu<\/a>\u00a0or 719-255-8181 for assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Written by Quiara Alegr\u00eda Hudes, book author of “In The Heights,” the play explores the invisible costs of war for Elliot, a Puerto Rican American and third-generation combat veteran with a wounded leg and a decision to make about re-enlisting for a second tour. (More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":136966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,45,49,12,14],"tags":[330,412,332,275],"class_list":["post-136960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-arts-and-culture","category-campus-announcements","category-events","category-upcoming-events","tag-arts-and-culture","tag-ent-center","tag-more-news","tag-theatreworks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Communique-Featured-Image-1400-x-1052-px-double-size-2.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-zD2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136960"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154193,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136960\/revisions\/154193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/136966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}