Sotto Voce (TCG Edition) - by Nilo Cruz (Paperback)

About the Book

An exquisite new drama from the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Anna in the Tropics

Book 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.

Review Quotes

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 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.