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variety.comA.D. Amorosi For Cuban American playwright Nilo Cruz, every line is poetry, and every couplet speaks to the socio-politics of his roots.That could mean the lyrical “Anna in the Tropics,” the play that won Cruz the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and its tale of cigar-making Cuban immigrants in Florida and the lector who organized labor forces while reading “Anna Karenina” to his workers.
Or it could mean the elegiac “Lorca in a Green Dress” and its mix of social consciousness and the Surrealist subconscious in its pondering of death and an afterlife.For “Two Sisters and a Piano,” his 1999 political passion play — now directed by Cruz as a streaming work through New Normal Rep — the setting is a hectic Havana on the cusp.
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