Sotto Voce (TCG Edition) - Softcover

Cruz, Nilo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1559365064 ISBN 13: 9781559365062

Publisher: Theatre Communications Group, 2016

Synopsis

Exquisite, dreamlike The poetry of Cruz’s writing is what those who love his work cite most often about his style, and Sotto Voce has that It also contains passages that are realistic, whimsical, sensual and heartbreaking. Cruz may be that rarity, a poet of the stage, but he is first and foremost a dramatist.”
Christine Dolen, Miami Herald

The millennium, New York City. Bemadette Kahn, an eighty-year-old German-born writer, spends her days in her apartment, trying to forget the past. Until Saquiel Rafaeli, a young Jewish-Cuban researcher, appears on her doorstep, forcing her to confront those haunted memories. He’s eager to learn about Bemadette’s long-lost lover, Ariel Strauss, who set sail in 1939 aboard the St. Louis, never to be seen again. With layered lyrical language and vibrant intimacy, Sotto Voce is an imaginative exploration of the power of memory, love and human connection.

Nilo Cruz is the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning Anna in the Tropics, as well as Beauty of the Father, Two Sisters and a Piano, Lorca in a Green Dress, Dancing on Her Knees, Night Train to Bolina and other works.

About this title

About the Author

Nilo Cruz won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in Drama for his play Anna in the Tropics, making him the first Latino to be so honored. He is author of more than 13 plays and four translations. He studied theater first at Miami-Dade Community College and later in NYC under fellow Cuban María Irene Fornés. Fornés recommended Cruz to Paula Vogel, who was then teaching at Brown University, where Cruz received his M.F.A. in 1994. He was playwright-in-residence at the New Theatre in Coral Gables, FL, where he wrote Anna in the Tropics, which received the Pulitzer and Steinberg prizes in 2003. Its Broadway premiere in 2004 starred Jimmy Smitts in the lead role. Plays by Cruz have been presented by the Public Theater, NY Theatre Workshop, Pasadena Playhouse, McCarter Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, South Coast Repertory, The Alliance, New Theatre, Florida Stage and the Coconut Grove Playhouse. He is an alumnus of New Dramatists and has taught playwriting at Brown University, the University of Iowa, Yale and University of Miami. In 2009, he received the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for a distinguished American playwright in mid-career.

Review

"Exquisite, dreamlike... Nilo Cruz is a keen observer of behavior. Cruz's territory is the soul, that inner life in which dreams, desires and disappointments reside... Cruz may be that rarity, a poet of the stage, but he is first and foremost a dramatist." - Christine Dolen, "Miami Herald"

Exquisite, dreamlike... Nilo Cruz is a keen observer of behavior. Cruz s territory is the soul, that inner life in which dreams, desires and disappointments reside... Cruz may be that rarity, a poet of the stage, but he is first and foremost a dramatist. Christine Dolen, "Miami Herald""

About this edition

• Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1559365064
• ISBN 13: 9781559365062
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96