South Bend Civic Theatre Heats Up Summer with the Passionate and Poetic Pulitzer Winner "Anna in the Tropics" - Two Weeks Only
May 23, 2012 — Set in 1929 Florida in a Cuban-American cigar factory where cigars are still rolled by hand, Anna in the Tropics tells a story of passion and dreams. The arrival of a charismatic new lector, or reader, to entertain the workers in the factory creates a burst of excitement. When he begins to read aloud from the classic “Anna Karenina,” the novel’s romantic prose sparks hidden desires in his listeners which will change their lives dramatically.
Playwright Nilo Cruz won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2003 for Anna in the Tropics, and was highly praised for this lyrical and atmospheric play full of powerful language and emotions. The New York Times hailed the play’s “currents of longing, thick with hope and hopelessness” in characters filled with “nobility and emotional energy” living in “a gentle, premodern world on the brink of extinction.” The Los Angeles Times proclaimed it a “combustible drama” and a “remarkable play, [where] both the harsh Florida glare and the melancholy glow of a vanished world have yielded to the even greater illumination of poetic truth.”
Kevin Dreyer directs Steven Cole, Nick DeDario, Alicia Flores, Patrick Gring, Consuela Howell, Amorena Ruffolo, Patrick Trimboli, and Jared Windhauser.
Anna in the Tropics performs in the Wilson Mainstage Auditorium, 403 N Main St in South Bend, two weeks only, June 22-July 1. Tickets are $15 Wednesday and Thursday (7:30 PM), $18 Friday, Saturday (8:00 PM), and Sunday (3:00 PM). Call the Box Office 574-234-1112 (open 12-6 weekdays) or go online: www.sbct.org. Thanks to sponsors Villing and Company and Majority Builders.
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