I know you’re scared of your Twitter feed right now, and I have the cure: Go see Pulitzer winner/Lin-Manuel Miranda collaborator Quiara Alegría Hudes’ play Elliot, a Soldier’s Fugue at Profile Theatre.
“BUT MEGAN,” you say. “I AM NOT A MILLION YEARS OLD AND I’M FRANKLY OFFENDED YOU’D EVEN SUGGEST THIS. I HATE LIVE THEATER AND NEVER GO.”
You do now, champ. Or at least you do this time. Because it’s not often you have the chance to see a play that’s politically relevant, mercifully brief, and delicately balanced between drama and restraint, with lyrical dialogue and a lot of hip-hop and reggaeton used to clever effect.
Elliot, a Soldier’s Fugue is one of those plays that makes me breathe a sigh of relief I’m not watching yet another dull examination of rich white people feuding over a house. Profile’s staff couldn’t have anticipated that Hudes’ play—about three generations of a Puerto Rican military family during a dark time in American history—would resonate so deeply with the current political climate, but it does.