ANNA IN THE TROPICS
BY Nilo Cruz
Nilo Cruz transports audiences with the power and poetry of his language…Winner of the
2003 Pulitzer Prize in Drama,
Anna is set in 1929 in a Florida
based Cuban-American cigar
factory where cigars are rolled by
hand & "lectors" are employed to
educate & entertain the workers.
The arrival of a new, handsome
lector is cause for celebration, but
when he reads aloud from Anna
Karenina, he unwittingly becomes
a catalyst in the lives of his avid
listeners, for whom Tolstoy, tropical heat, passion, & the American dream prove to be volatile.
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