THE STORY: ANNA IN THE TROPICS is a poignant and poetic new play set in Florida in 1929 in a CubanAmerican cigar factory, where cigars are still rolled by hand and "lectors" are employed to educate and entertain the workers. The arrival of a new lector is a cause for celebration, but when he begins to read aloud from
Anna Karenina, he unwittingly becomes a catalyst in the lives of his avid listeners, for whom Tolstoy, the tropics and the American dream prove a volatile combination.
Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize. "The words of Nilo Cruz waft from a stage like a scented breeze. They sparkle and prickle and swirl, enveloping those who listen in both a specific place and time - and in timeless passions that touch us all
In ANNA IN THE TROPICS, Cruz claims his place as a storyteller of intricate craftsmanship and poetic power
[Cruz] has turned out many wonderful plays - but none more shimmeringly beautiful than ANNA IN THE TROPICS." - Miami Herald. "In evoking the lost CubanAmerican world of a Florida cigar factory in 1929, Mr. Cruz has created a work as wistful and affectingly ambitious as its characters. ANNA IN THE TROPIC reaches for the artistic heavens
" - NY Times. "
enticing and exotic
entrancingly lovely
" - Variety
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Dramatists Play Service Inc. |
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