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Garbo's Cuban Lover (the abridged version)

(The abridged version)

Garbo’s Cuban Lover by Odalys Nanin (The abridged version) resurrects queer icon Mercedes de Acosta, celebrating her wit, passions, and defiance of social norms. Aristocratic, flamboyant, and unapologetically queer, writer De Acosta arrives in Hollywood in 1931 and quickly gains entry into the Hollywood elite. Wearing trousers, living openly as a lesbian, navigating the film industry, she was a suffragette and activist who romanced Hollywood’s top stars like Isadora Duncan, Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo. Bold, funny, and dynamic, this play spans the decades of Garbo and de Acosta’s relationship, as the two work and love in the golden age of Hollywood.