Masterpieces

** Plays **
 * ** //Dancing on Her Knees// (1994)- This play is set in the 80s in Florida on all souls day. It is about Francine, a Transvestite, who wants to be with his lover who is dead. The plot revolves around a dancing competition. The play explores issues in the gay community as well. **


 * **// Night Train to Bolina //** **(1995)- Set in Latin America, this play follows two children who flee their homes in a war torn nation to go to Bolina, a mythical place where lost kites go. The two children reach a church orphanage but are separated when their loyalty and dependence on each other is viewed by the church as sexual. They find that they are linked telepathically, however, and are eventually reunited.**




 * **// A Park in Our House //** **(1995)-It explores the relationship between Cuba and the USSR before the fall of the Soviet Union. An upper class family takes in a Russian visitor. In this play the focus on the imagined worlds is key.**
 * **// Two Sisters and a Piano //** **(1998)--Nilo Cruz’s play //Two Sisters and a Piano// takes place in Havana, Cuba. Two sisters are on House arrest from the government. The first sister, Marìa Celia, is a writer that published works that led to the two sisters’ imprisonment. The second sister, Sofia, blames her sister for the situation. Throughout the play, the two sisters explore the ideas of revolution and stay strong in their belief to support their forbidden ideals.**


 * **// A Bicycle Country //** **(1999)--This play takes place in Cuba, with a man, Julio, who has suffered from a stroke. This play shows the stringent circumstances the government has placed upon its citizens.**
 * **// Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams //** **(2001)- Through simultaneous stories of two siblings, their struggle against their past and against current government oppression, a view of Cuba during the monumental event of the pope’s visit is presented.**


 * **// Lorca in a Green Dress //** **(2003)- In this piece, Cruz is in purgatory where Lorca is introduced to the many side's of his personality. Various aspects of his childhood, beliefs, and internal emotions are displayed during this surreal drama.**
 * **// Beauty of the Father //** **(2006)-This play takes place in 1998 in Salobrena, Spain. A bisexual painter named Emiliano is reunited with his daughter Marina. The plot of the play centers around Marina and Emiliano both having feelings for Karim.**


 * **// Capricho (2003)-This one act play illustrates a brief moment in the career of Lolò when he is forgotten. The loneliness that he experiences is the main point of the play. //**
 * Musicals **
 * ** Havana- book by Cruz **