Anna in the Tropics

Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, this moving tale is set in a cigar factory owned by Cuban expatriates in 1929 Florida. The factory owner hires a lector from Cuba – a man hired to read books and newspapers to the workers as they roll the cigars. When the lector begins reading from the passionate Russian novel Anna Karenina, he arouses emotion from deep within the workers’ hearts and souls, setting in motion events which force the sleepy community to confront changes they had hoped to avoid.