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Anna in the Tropics
Anna in the Tropics is a well known Pulitzer Prize-winning (2003) play by Nilo Cruz. Ybor City, a section of Tampa, was the hub of the cigar industry, and it serves as the setting for Nilo Cruzs Pulitzer Prize-winning play.

The Cuban immigrants brought over the cigar-making industry to Florida in the 19th Century. When they did so, they carried with them another tradition as well. As the workers sweated it out in the factory, hand rolling each cigar, the lector, would read to them.

The lector helped to inform, organize and entertain the workers until the 1930s. This was until the rollers and the readers were replaced by mechanization.The story is set in 1929. Anna in the Tropics describes a family of cigar workers whose lives are irrevocably changed by the arrival of a new lector.

Santiago and Ofelia built a home and a business in Ybor City. Their daughters were brought up to roll cigars and honor tradition, but Marela dreams of adventure, while Conchita finds herself trapped in a passionless marriage with her husband, Palomo.

Only Cheche, Santiagos illegitimate brother, embraces the idea of progress in the factory as he tries to hide from the failures of his past.

As the new lector, Juan Julian, reads Anna Karenina to the workers, the spirit of Tolstoys novel affects them. With each chapter, new desires and jealousies erupt in the factory. Even the novels deadly love triangle starts to play itself out as Conchita considers whether to take a lover.

The play raises the dichotomy of a time when the sound of a human voice reading poetry is about to be replaced by the percussive sound of a factory full of machines. Anna in the Tropics was widely regarded as a long shot for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in Drama, mainly because it had not been seen in New York.

The play premiered at the New Theatre in Coral Gables, Florida and had to compete with Edward Albees The Goat, or, Who is Sylvia? and Richard Greenbergs Take Me Out for the coveted award.

Cruz, a Cuban born playwright living in New York, quoted, Its wonderful. I cannot believe it. The other day I went to the bookstore and I saw a book by William Kennedy. He won the Pulitzer for Ironweed, which I adore.

I was standing there looking at his books and thinking how amazing it was that this writer won a Pulitzer, and now Ive been given one, too. I think Im still in shock. I havent completely acknowledged the grandness of the award.

His past works, such as Two Sisters and a Piano, have earned him a reputation for writing lyrical, atmospheric plays with powerful emotions and language. Critic Christine Dolen of the Miami Herald calls Anna in the Tropics his best to date: It is a passionate, explosive, tender play, one filled with Cruzs poetic-evocative imagery, language that almost seems tactile.

Anna in the Tropics was honored with two nominations at the 2004 Tony Awards. The show was nominated in the category of Best Play and Best Featured Actress in a Play (Daphne Rubin-Vega)