Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama . . . there are many kinds of light. The light of fires. The light of stars. The light that reflects off rivers. Light that penetrates through cracks. Then there's the type of light that reflects off the skin. --Nilo Cruz, Anna in the Tropics 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...
Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama . . . there are many kinds of light. The light of fires. The light of stars. The light...
SPANISH LANGUAGE EDITION Ganadora del Premio Pulitzer 2003 de Obras Dramaticas "Extraordinaria y evocativa. La estelar Ana en el tropico es una obra de arte." -Christine Dolen, Miami Herald "Ana en el tropico es una obra hermosa y conmovedora, reforzada por el humor y la congja. Cruz es un seductor narrador de cuentos, y un ductil tejedor de suenos." -Robert L. Daniels, Variety "El lenguaje de Cruz posee una brilliante belleza lirica, y una simple precision que encanta con su elegancia natural." -Desmond Ryan, Philadelphia Inquirer...
SPANISH LANGUAGE EDITION Ganadora del Premio Pulitzer 2003 de Obras Dramaticas "Extraordinaria y evocativa. La estelar Ana en el trop...
Nilo Cruz is the most produced Cuban American playwright in the United States and was the first dramatist of Hispanic descent to receive the Pulitzer Prize. In his plays, Cruz almost always journeys back to Cuba, even when the play is not set there. Cruz is a sensualist, a conjurer of mysterious voyages and luxuriant landscapes. He is a poetic chronicler, a documentarian of the presence of Latin people in American life. He conveys the strength and persistence of the Cuban spirit through a wholly dramatic imagination. This volume includes Two Sisters and a Piano, Hortensia and the Museum of...
Nilo Cruz is the most produced Cuban American playwright in the United States and was the first dramatist of Hispanic descent to receive the Pulitzer ...
-The words of Nilo Cruz waft from the stage like a scented breeze. They sparkle and prickle and swirl, enveloping those who listen in both specific place and time . . . and in timeless passions that touch us all.---The Miami Herald
One of the United States' most-produced Cuban American writers, Nilo Cruz employs his signature poetic imagery and vivid language to tender and humorous effect in this pair of his newest works. The Color of Desire, set in 1960 Havana, revolves around a passionate romance between an American businessman and an out-of-work Cuban...
-The words of Nilo Cruz waft from the stage like a scented breeze. They sparkle and prickle and swirl, enveloping those who listen in both spec...
