Anna In The Tropics |
COSTA MESA, CA -- Nilo Cruz's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama ANNA IN THE TROPICS is an intimate, poetic drama about the impact of literature and romance on a Cuban-American family in Tampa, Florida circa 1929. The family, fairly
recent transplants to the USA, own a small cigar factory which operates
the old-fashioned, traditional way. Not only are the cigars made by hand
but the craftsmen (and women) look forward to having a lector read to
them as they work, either from the newspaper or from works of literature. |
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Only Cheche resents
the lector. Not only does he have little use for Tolstoy's romantic notions
(having been cuckolded and abandoned by his wife), he sees the reader
as a symbol of all that's old-fashioned and impractical about the cigar
industry. He feels it should be mechanized and made more efficient and
impersonal. Profits are what count, not poetry. |
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Through Oct. 25 at South Coast Rep, 655 Town Center Drive. Call (714) 708-555 or visit scr.org |