Anna in the Tropics
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Oct 3, 2003
Closed Oct 25, 2003
Opened Oct 3, 2003
Closed Oct 25, 2003
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South Coast Repertory presents Anna in the Tropics by Nilo Cruz, winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play concerns the powerful effect art can have. A family of Cuban-Americans in pre-Depression Tampa spend their long days creating fine cigars and listening to the insightful reading of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, interpreted by a traditional Cuban "lector," one who travels the countryside reading literature to residents. Juliette Carrillo directs.
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An evening of contemplation and language, Nilo Cruz's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Anna in the Tropics explores literature's power to affect even the most humble lives. The 2003-2004 season opener for South Coast Repertory's Julianne Argyros Stage, Anna is a startling story of a family of Cuban cigar rollers in 1920s Florida whose lives are enlivened and disturbed by a stranger, a pied piper who brings to them the passions of Tolstoy and his tragic heroine Anna Karenina.
In the Cuban culture, a lector reads to workers to educate and stimulate their minds during the doldrums of their repetitive tasks. As the play begins, the lector at Santiago's cigar factory has just died of old age. The wom[...]