Havana Is Waiting (Masterplots II: Drama, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Eduardo Machado
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Plot: Autobiographical
- Time of Work: December, 1999
- Setting: New York and Cuba
- Principal Characters: Federico, Fred, Ernesto, The Percussionist
- Genres: Drama, Autobiographical drama
- Subjects: New York, United States or Americans, Communism or communists, Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Exile or expatriates, Immigration or emigration, Identity, Cuba or Cubans, Government, Loneliness, Separation, Cold War
- Locales: New York, Cuba
The Play
Act 1 opens in December, 1999, in Federico’s New York apartment. Federico, like Eduardo Machado himself, was one of the 14,048 children of Operation Pedro Pan, a secret operation administered by Roman Catholic charities with support from the U.S. government. Cuban parents sent unaccompanied children to Florida between 1960 and 1962, fearing that Cuban dictator Fidel Castro would take legal custody of them and indoctrinate them to be obedient communists.
Fred enters; they are going to visit Federico’s native Cuba together, after thirty-eight years of exile...
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