Seminars debate the bombs that have not yet fallen, while the war the Cuban regime has waged for decades against its own people is passed over in silence. What is at stake is naming the war that does exist, and those who wage it – and granting Cubans the recognition that they know exactly what they are doing when they take to the streets.

In Suárez’s theatrical adaptation, the conflict between Diego and David ceases to be merely a metaphor for the intolerance of 1990s Cuba,...