Anna in the Tropics

Teatro Nagual presents "Anna in the Tropics", written by Nilo Cruz. Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize, this poignant and poetic play set in Florida in 1929 in a Cuban-American cigar factory, where cigars are still rolled by hand and the "lectors" are employed to educate and entertain the workers. The arrival of a new lector is a cause for celebration, but when he begins to read aloud from Anna Karenina, he unwittingly becomes a catalyst in the lives of his avid listeners, for whom Tolstoy, the tropics… Show more and the American dream prove a volatile combination.

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