Based on three decades of letters Maria Irene Fornes received from her brother in Havana, Letters from Cuba moves from New York City to Cuba at the turn of the twenty-first century. A New York apartment dominates the stage, with Cuba represented simply as the roof above it.

LETTERS FROM CUBA. By Maria Irene Fornes. Signature Theatre Company, Peter Norton Space, New York, New York. 25 February 2000. Compared to Sam Shepard (1996-97), Arthur Miller (1997-98), and even John Guare (1998-99), Maria Irene Fornes was a bold choice as the fea tured playwright for the 1999-2000 season of New York's Signature Theatre ...

Fornés, María Irene . "Letters from Cuba." Letters from Cuba and Other Plays. PAJ Publications, 8-34. PDF, BibTex

2000年2月28日 · Running a little over an hour, the world premiere of Maria Irene Fornes’s Letters From Cuba is a woozy, daydream of a play that pulses with it’s own inner-Caribbean heat. One of America’s...

2024年12月8日 · Set simultaneously in both New York and Cuba, Maria Irene Fornes’s play, Letters From Cuba follows two siblings, Fran and Luis, who were separated after Fran Emigrated to the United States. The two communicate through letters, and much of the play consists of Fran and Louis reading the letters that they write to each other.

Fornés's first step toward playwriting involved translating letters she brought with her from Cuba that were written to her great-grandfather from a cousin in Spain. She turned the letters into a play called La Viuda (The Widow, 1961). Never translated into English, it …

Letters from Cuba is a dance of desire between past and present. It flows back and forth between a brother in Cuba and a sister in New York City, yearning to be in the same place at the same time. With this play, María Irene Fornés questions: how do we reach for stability in a world where we are constantly being thrown off balance?

Maria-Irene Fornés’ play, Letters from Cuba, is a semi-autobiographical play that explores the themes of family and enduring a connection between siblings separated by distance. The play centers on communication between Fran and Luis through letters.

“Letters From Cuba”: The Critical Response (This document was composed by Harrison Hill as part of an advanced seminar on María Irene Fornes held in the Department of Drama, New York University, Spring 2008.) The reviews for “Letters From Cuba” were generally favorable.