Spring 2009

Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Nilo Cruz's

By special arrangement with Dramatist's Play Services Inc.

Anna in the Tropics is a poignant and poetic play set in 1929 Florida in a Cuban-American cigar factory, where cigars are still rolled by hand and "lectors" are employed to educate and entertain the workers. The arrival of a new lector is a cause for celebration, but when he begins to read aloud from Anna Karenina, he unwittingly becomes a catalyst in the lives of his avid listeners, for whom Tolstoy, the tropics and the American dream prove a volatile combination. 

Santiago Dave Walsh
Cheché  Chris Hibbs
Ofelia  Janet McDonald
Marela  Natalia Hennelly
Conchita  Janet Edmonds
Palomo  Chris Panting
Juan Julian George Robertson
Eliades Rod Lundrigan
Worker John Cheeseman

Director Jill Kennedy
Co-producers Katherine Elliott & Matt Hickman
Set Design & Constructon Jim Hoskins
Lighting Design Clar Doyle
Sound Design George Robertson
Poster Design Margie Moore
Stage Manager & Program Dawn Mason
Costumes Carol Wadden
Properties Rachel Deal & Karen Dawe
Lighting Technician Kim Martin
Sound Technician Maggie Doyle
Lighting Crew Adam Higdon & Maggie Doyle
Backstage Crew Bridget Henley, Rachel Deal & Keith Roberts
Set Build Jim Hoskins, Rod Lundrigan, Chris Panting, Matt Hickman, 
Jill Kennedy, Katherine Elliott, Roy Perry, Margie Moore & Dawn Mason