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Anna in the Tropics (TCG Edition)

✍ Scribed by Nilo Cruz

Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Year: 2011;2003
Tongue: English
Weight: 62 KB
Edition: TCG Edition
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 1282468650

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✦ Synopsis

Winner of the 2003 Pulitizer Prize for Drama

_. . . there are many kinds of light.
The light of fires. The light of stars.
The light that reflects off rivers.
Light that penetrates through cracks.
Then there's the type of light that reflects off the skin.
_--Nilo Cruz, Anna in the Tropics

This lush romantic drama depicts a family of cigar makers whose loves and lives are played out against the backdrop of America in the midst of the Depression. Set in Ybor City (Tampa) in 1930, Cruz imagines the catalytic effect the arrival of a new "lector" (who reads Tolstoy's Anna Karenina to the workers as they toil in the cigar factory) has on a Cuban-American family. Cruz celebrates the search for identity in a new land.

"The words of Nilo Cruz waft from the stage like a scented breeze. They sparkle and prickle and swirl, enveloping those who listen in both specific place and time . . . and in timeless passions that touch u...

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