The Play
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Anna in the Tropics (PRINT AND EBOOK AVAILABLE)
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Publication Date: 2009Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
"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."
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Anna in the Tropics (audio recording, 1 hour 36 minutes)
An L.A. Theatre Works production recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in June of 2005. Directed by Jose Luis Valenzuela and starringJimmy Smits as Juan Julian. Note: Use the "Send to Mobile" option to listen to this recording on a mobile device.