Feature: PLAY READINGS WITH NILO CRUZ at FAU Theatre Lab

This weekend, Pulitzer Prize winner and celebrated Cuban-American playwright Nilo Cruz is set to host three play readings (two premieres) at FAU's Theatre Lab. Slated as the season opener for this year's Playwright's Forum and Master Class Series, Mr. Cruz is starting the fall off strong, giving lectures and talk-backs following each of his shows. Mr. Cruz is supported by FAU faculty, who host free lectures before each play reading, supplementing each of his works.

Friday, October 6, Theatre Lab, FAU Boca Raton

5:30 pm, FAU Professor Patricia Kollander presents a lecture on the fate of the Jewish people on the St. Louis who were turned away from Cuba and the United States during World War II (Free)

7:30 pm, Reading of Nilo Cruz's play "Sotto Voce." Bemadette Kahn, an 80-year-old German born writer, spends her days trying to forget the past until Saquiel Rafaeli, a young Jewish-Cuban researcher, forces her to confront those haunted memories. He's eager to learn about Bemadette's long-lost lover, Ariel Strauss, who died in 1939 aboard the St. Louis, never to be seen again. ($20)

Saturday, October 7, Theatre Lab, Boca Raton

2 pm, Reading of Nilo Cruz's three monologues "East and West of the War." ($20)

Farhad, or the Secret of Being. Farhad is a 15-year-old girl on the outskirts of Kabul who disguises herself as a boy to blend in a world where being a man is almost as being divine.

The Journey of the Shadow.The tale of Marcelo Miguel, a young boy who enters the world of the imagination to communicate against all odds with his missing father, a soldier fighting in Afghanistan.

Melisma. In the ruins of a village in Afghanistan, Lolo, a wounded and deserted American soldier lingers on, and learns of the virtues offered by the small things in life.

4:30 pm, Lecture with FAU Professor Karen Leader on artist Alice Neel titled "Anarchic

Humanist." (Free)

7:30 pm,Reading of Nilo Cruz's play "Alice N."

This play captures moments of the artist's remarkable and tragic life: her tempestuous marriage to the great Cuban painter Carlos Enriquez, her travels to Havana, a nervous breakdown, and more.($20)

Sunday, October 8, Theatre Lab, FAU Boca Raton

10 am, Masterclass with Playwright Nilo Cruz.($30)

All lectures preceding Nilo Cruz Readings are FREE

All Nilo Cruz events: $75

Student Tickets for Readings and Masterclass:Free

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