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  • Tastes Like Cuba

    An Exile's Hunger for Home

    Born into a well-to-do family in Cuba in 1953, Eduardo Machado saw firsthand the effects of the rising Castro regime. When he and his brother were sent to the United States on one of the Peter Pan flights of 1961, they did not know if they would ever see their parents or their home again. From his experience living in exile in Los Angeles to becoming an actor, director, playwright and professor in ... Read more

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  • The Floating Island Plays

    Includes The Modern Ladies of Guanabacoa, Fabiola, In the Eye of the Hurricane and Broken Eggs. ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Havana is Waiting and Other Plays

    “The existential pain of exile, the confusions of sexual identity and the complex legacies of the Cuban revolution are predominant [in] Mr. Machado’s writing,” –The New York TimesEduardo Machado explores his lifelong themes with humor and passion in Havana Is Waiting (a writer returns to Cuba after thirty years), Kissing Fidel (a comedy set in Miami funeral parlor), The Cook (chronicling Cuban ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Broken Eggs

    Narrated by Mehnlehseh Boayue, Full Cast ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 11 min

    This painfully funny slice of Cuban-American life in the suburbs is a cross between a Hispanic soap opera and an ethnic comedy with political overtones. This deft play can turn serious or silly in an instant and you’ll need a scorecard to keep track of the cascading and frequently arboreous calamities.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Mehnlehseh Boayue, Noe Cuellar, Marilyn ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • Two Sisters and a Piano and Other Plays

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    Nilo Cruz is the most produced Cuban American playwright in the United States and was the first dramatist of Hispanic descent to receive the Pulitzer Prize. In his plays, Cruz almost always journeys back to Cuba, even when the play is not set there. Cruz is a sensualist, a conjurer of mysterious voyages and luxuriant landscapes. He is a poetic chronicler, a documentarian of the presence of Latin ... Read more

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