Anna In The Tropics
by Nilo Cruz

Name: Anna In The Tropics
Brand: Nilo Cruz
SKU: 9781559362320
Rating: 4.5 (2161 reviews)

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Highlights

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Large Cast

Female

Male

120 mins American

What readers are saying

Readers appreciate the rich storytelling and character development in this play, often noting its beautiful language and emotional depth. Many find the themes of love and cultural identity compelling, while the connection to 'Anna Karenina' adds an intriguing layer. However, some feel the narrative can be disjointed and the ending abrupt, leaving them wanting more clarity.

Rich storytelling and character development Beautiful language and emotional depth Compelling themes of love and identity Somewhat disjointed narrative structure

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 us all.

In Anna in the Tropics, the world premiere work he created for Coral Gables’ intimate New Theatre, Cruz claims his place as a storyteller of intricate craftsmanship and poetic power."—Miami Herald

Nilo Cruz is a young Cuban-American playwright whose work has been produced widely around the United States including the Public Theater (New York, NY), South Coast Repertory (Costa Mesa, CA), Magic Theatre (San Francisco, CA), Oregon Shakespeare Festival, McCarter Theater (Princeton, NJ) and New Theatre (Coral Gables, FL).

His other plays include Night Train to Bolina, Two Sisters and a Piano, Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams, among others.

Anna in the Tropics also won the Steinberg Award for Best New Play.

Mr. Cruz teaches playwriting at Yale University and lives in New York City.