Anna in the Tropics
In a Cuban-American cigar factory in Tampa in 1929, a hired lector begins reading Tolstoy's Anna Karenina to the workers, and the novel starts to rearrange their marriages and loyalties. The factory's old hand-rolling craft is also being undercut by mechanisation. Premiered in 2002 and the first Pulitzer for Drama given to a Latino playwright.
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- alludes to ↑ Anna Karenina
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