Anna in the Tropics

Nilo Cruz

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English

Nick Hern Books
08 December 2003

Plays & playscripts

Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer 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 Depression-era America. 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.

Reviews:

""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, Cruz claims his place as a storyteller of intricate craftsmanship and poetic power.""-Miami Herald

""Deeply engrossing."" Robert Hurwitt, San Francisco Chronicle

""Earnestly poetic...

Mr. Cruz has created a work as wistful and affectingly ambitious as its characters. Anna in the Tropics reaches for the artistic heavens -- specifically, that corner of eternity occupied by the plays of Anton Chekhov, where yearning is an existential condition."" Ben Brantley, New York Times

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, and Anna in the Tropics (Winner of 2003 Pulitzer Prize). Mr. Cruz teaches playwriting at Yale University and lives in New York City.

By: Nilo Cruz
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 215mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 142g
ISBN: 9781559362320
ISBN 10: 1559362324
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 08 December 2003
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Nilo Cruz is one of America's most produced Cuban-American writers. His other plays include Two Sisters and a Piano - seen in London at the Riverside Studios in October 2003 - Lorca in a Green Dress, Night Train to Bolina, A Bicycle Country and Dancing on Her Knees. Cruz has taught playwriting at Brown and Yale Universities. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Anna in the Tropics before it had even been staged.

Reviews for Anna in the Tropics

'The words of Nilo Cruz waft from the stage like a scented breeze. They sparkle and prickle and swirl, enveloping those who listen in timeless passions that touch us all. Cruz has turned out many wonderful plays - but none more shimmeringly beautiful than Anna in the Tropics' * Miami Herald *