A Bicycle Country
by Nilo Cruz

Name: A Bicycle Country
Brand: Nilo Cruz
SKU: 9780822219774
Rating: 3.96 (23 reviews)

A Bicycle Country Book Cover — A Bicycle Country Cover

Highlights

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75 mins1990sRole(s) for Latine Actor(s)Bare Stage/Simple SetContemporary Costumes/Street Clothes

Synopsis

Three characters whose lives seem to be moving nowhere set out to build a dream, even if that dream seems perilous.

This stirring portrait of three Cuban exiles and their harrowing journey across the Caribbean Sea examines the universal themes of freedom and oppression, hope and survival.

Press Reviews

"Cruz divides the essence of A Bicycle Country into the four elements of life –earth, water, fire, wind... Like an impressionist painting in words. It tells a rather simple story in a language that sails across all horizons."
— Miami Herald

"In Nilo Cruz’s play A Bicycle Country, Ines dreams about wearing her best scarf when she steps off the raft in Florida. It’s a deluded dream, but sweet image culled from ordinary life. She’s so full of exuberance and hope yet living in a prison of a country where want frustrates hope at every turn."
— Oregonian

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Ines A woman in her 30s	female	30s	A woman in her 30s
Pepe A man in his 30s All three characters are Cuban.	male	30s	A man in his 30s All three characters are Cuban.
Julio A man in his 40s	male	40s	A man in his 40s