Aguijón Theater's production of Nilo Cruz's drama is searing and sharp.
Nilo Cruz's plays often center on people suffering displacement and trying to find distractions for that pain, as in his 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning Anna in the Tropics, about a group of Cuban immigrants working in the cigar industry in 1929 Florida who take comfort from hearing Anna Karenina read aloud—and like Anna, engage in their own passionate infidelities. In 2018's Exquisita Agonía, the characters are caught between life and death, past and present.…
Aguijón Theater's production of Nilo Cruz's drama is searing and sharp.
Nilo Cruz's plays often center on people suffering displacement and trying to find distractions for that pain, as in his 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning Anna in the Tropics, about a group of Cuban immigrants working in the cigar industry in 1929 Florida who take comfort from hearing Anna Karenina read aloud—and like Anna, engage in their own passionate infidelities. In 2018's Exquisita Agonía, the characters are caught between life and death, past and present.…