Anna in the Tropics

Anna in the Tropics a Pulitzer Prize-winning 2002 play by Nilo Cruz set in a 1929 Tampa cigar factory. The story revolves around the arrival of a new "lector," a traditional worker hired to read literature aloud to the cigar rollers. When he begins reading Leo Tolstoy’s classic novel Anna Karenina , the book’s themes of passion, infidelity, and tragedy spark intense real-life drama among the workers.