The play has just three performers, a run down two room set made to look just like run down Havana and graffiti strewn theaters walls “Viva Fidel!” is emblazoned on one. It is a quirky, very personal play with superb actors that grabs you as soon as it begins and carries you along its many literary highways and byways. Strawberry and Chocolate is the sometimes charming, and sometimes alarming, story of a friendship between a gay artist and a straight university student in Havana in 1979, at the height of Fidel Castro’s power. What a time for the premier of a play about gay life in Communist Cuba! New Jersey, right across the Hudson River from the theater that houses the play, just legalized same sex marriage and Russian President Vladimir Putin recently warned athletes headed to Sochi in February for the Winter Olympics not to protest for gay rights.
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