Anna in the Tropics

MiraCosta College Gym OC5200, Oceanside8 dates

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. Winner of the 2003…