The Madera Theatre Project will present pulitzer prize-winning play “Anna in the Tropics” by Nilo Cruz this season, this week and next week, directed by Rodolfo Robles Cruz.
Madera Theatre Project is currently being shepherded by Madera Unified School District and Madera County Arts Council with the goal of becoming its own self-sustaining, non-profit, 501(c)3 theatre organization. Going on its second season, MTP is proud of the line up, including “Alice in Wonderland,” “Anna in the Tropics” and “Into the Woods.”
The story of “Anna in the Tropics” is a poignant and poetic play set in Florida in 1929 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.