Anna In The Tropics

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 ... » 

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 theres the type of light that reflects off the skin.Nilo Cruz Anna in the TropicsThis lush romantic drama depicts a family of cigar makers whose loves and livesare 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 thearrival of a new lector who reads Tolstoys Anna Karenina to the workersas they toil in the cigar factory has on a CubanAmerican family. Cruzcelebrates the search for identity in a new land.The words of Nilo Cruz waft from the stage like a scented breeze. They sparkleand prickle and swirl enveloping those who listen in both specific place andtime . . . and in timeless passions that touch us all. In Anna in theTropics the world premiere work he created for Coral Gables intimate NewTheatre Cruz claims his place as a storyteller of intricate craftsmanship andpoetic power.Miami HeraldNilo Cruz is a young CubanAmerican playwright whose work has been producedwidely around the United States including the Public Theater New York NYSouth Coast Repertory Costa Mesa CA Magic Theatre San Francisco CAOregon Shakespeare Festival McCarter Theater Princeton NJ and New TheatreCoral Gables FL. His other plays include Night Train to Bolina Two Sistersand a Piano Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams among others. Anna in theTropics also won the Steinberg Award for Best New Play. Mr. Cruz teachesplaywriting atYale University and lives in New York City. «