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• Cruz’s play Two Sisters and a Piano (Theatre Communications Group, 2004) is set in 1991 as the fall of the Soviet Union further isolates Cuba politically and culturally. The two sisters of the play’s title—one is a writer and the other is a musican—are placed under house arrest after spending time in prison for signing a manifesto against the current regime (though Cruz’s characters never mention Castro by name). The sisters realize that, if they are to endure their sentence, they must redeem themselves through art.
• Many critics and lay readers alike consider...
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