Two Sisters and a Piano and Other Plays

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 people in American life, conveying the strength and persistence of the Cuban spirit through a wholly dramatic imagination

Thus Volume offers ...

Two Sisters and a Piano - "Cruz's tightly constructed study of incarcerated sisters provides the spine for an authentic study of oppression that bends but never breaks the human spirit"~ Variety

Beauty of the Father - "He is that rare American scribe who embraces the role of stage poet and the legacy of Tennessee Williams" ~ The Seattle Times

Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams - "Cruz explores all kinds of loss ... lost childhood, lost freedom, lost innocence. Yet he infused "Hortensia" with joy, with desire, with humor and hope and healing" ~ The Miami Herald

Lorca in a Green Dress - "Like Lorca, Cruz is a lyrical writer in whom the surreal is grounded in the musical world of the senses ... it is fresh, wonderful and dazzling" ~ Mail Tribune (Oregon)

Also includes the one-act play Capriccio