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Caridad Svich
MEMORIES OF OVERDEVELOPMENT. A Play by Caridad Svich. Some plays are quiet revolutions. Some stories you carry in your bones. This play is a film. A documentary about the people…
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CHELSEA & IVANKA. an ahistorical play by Caridad Svich. CHELSEA & IVANKA is a play-installation that looks at the friendship and falling out of two adults that sometimes resemble the…
AMY and SPECK by Caridad Svich Amy and Speck is a play-installation. It looks at an encounter between a judge who serves on the highest court in the land and…
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OUTLAW PLAYS by US playwright Caridad Svich focus on characters living outside boundaries imagined and real. The two plays in this volume- KILL TO EAT (a patriot song) and PENSACOLA…
The three plays by OBIE-winning playwright Caridad Svich examine varying aspects of art and decadence through the lens of contemporary visual art, photography, painting, and fashion. MAGNIFICENT WASTE (2012 finalist…
The six plays in this collection by OBIE-award-winning playwright Caridad Svich are a series of meditations on love, time, virtuality, and transience in the modern world. They focus mainly on…
Three plays by US playwright Caridad Svich that chart the rise and fall of couples in and out of love, loss and moments of tenderness and grace: INSTRUCTIONS FOR BREATHING…
THE SPANISH GOLDEN AGE PLAYS collects three playful, spirited, go-for-broke adaptation/translations by US Latina dramatist Caridad Svich of comedies by Maria Zayas de Sotomayor, Lope de Vega, and Calderon de…
A LITTLE STORY and other plays. Three plays by OBIE winner Caridad Svich: A LITTLE STORY centers on the disappearance of a displaced person at a detention center, and a…
AN ACORN by Caridad Svich. A play-poem-conversation about facing despair and moving forward. This new edition of AN ACORN is a collaboration between NoPassport Press and One Resilient Earth, a…
Previously published in the anthology Performed the here and now: an introduction to contemporary theater and performance edited by Chris Danowski … and also in the independent literary journal CallReview…
LIFE JACKET. a play by Caridad Svich. Synopsis: This is a story about two friends on a boat. They live in a small town near the sea. On this Sunday…
This collection of essays on the subject of theatre and various forms of censorship gathers in an original and stimulating manner the voices of academics, practitioners and artist-scholars, among them…
Caridad Svich examines the exhilarating Hedwig and the Angry Inch through the lenses of visual and vocal rock ‘n’ roll performance, the history of the American musical, and its positioning…
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Award-winning play with songs by Caridad Svich that examines grief, loss and the power of love. A young woman loses her husband in a recent war. A community rallies round…
A seriocomic road movie for the stage by US Latina dramatist Caridad Svich about friendship, family, loss and the desire to be free.
The Land and Country Plays: Fugitive Pieces, Thrush and Rift by 2012 OBIE Award winning playwright Caridad Svich. A bold, brutal and tender trilogy of plays about individuals adrift in…
LORCA: SIX MAJOR PLAYS gathers Federico Garcia Lorca’s most well-known plays in English-language translations by US Latina dramatist Caridad Svich. This new collected edition (previously available only as single set…
AGUA DE LUNA (PSALMS FOR THE ROUGE) is a new play by Caridad Svich that traces the personal lives of three couples living in southwest Detroit. Written in close-ups snapshots…
WHEN I WAS BOTH by Caridad Svich. Jenna loses her job at university after 20-odd years in the field. This action, out of her control, sends her on a journey…
RED BIKE by Caridad Svich. A play about being a chid, growing up, living in small town America and figuring out where you stand in a divided country. A fable…
JARMAN (all this maddening beauty) by Caridad Svich. This text for live performance by OBIE winning playwright Caridad Svich is inspired by the life and works of British filmmaker Derek…
HOLLER RIVER is a play by Caridad Svich. A soldier waits for another to come home. They were teacher and student once. A town waits, too, deep in the heart…
AN ACORN by Caridad Svich. A text for performance that traces the journey of a person that loses their voice one morning after an event that shocks the foundation of…
STAND by Caridad Svich. An acoustic electric poem-play of women's rage and ancient power. On this day, another woman from the village is raped. Their name is Cassandra. A chorus…
DAY FOR NIGHT (fifteen tracks for disaster) by Caridad Svich. This is a vinyl recording for the page. Fifteen poetic tracks of hope, despair, longing, and prayer. The world of…
DESDEMONA'S CHILD (blood cry) a play by Caridad Svich. Desdemona's child comes back to the town in which they were raised, haunted by the ghost of Beautiful D, and with…
Featuring conversations with theatre makers in the US and UK during the first 8 months of the Covid-19 lockdown, this collection reveals the innovations in digital theatre as artists, companies…
FIRE PLAYS by Caridad Svich brings together five plays - A GOOD KICK, MISSING, REMAINS, AWAY DOWN DREAMING and GENUINE BONAFIDE ARTICLE - which have never been seen before. The…
JOAN OF THE DOCKYARDS. a play by Caridad Svich. A working-class, poetic drama that explores faith, longing, and climate change through the lens of a modern-day Joan and her family…
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF DREAMS AND OTHER PLAYS collects four of playwright Caridad Svich's epic "fantasias" for the theatre. In addition to the title play, the volume includes THE SPELL OF…
UPON THE FRAGILE SHORE is a play for four actors by Caridad Svich that explores human rights and environmental issues around the world especially in relationship to human-made tragedies and…
EARLY PLAYS: VOLUME ONE: four early works from playwright-poet Caridad Svich that offer tantalizing glimpses into the seeds of her future writing. This collection contains two solo performance texts SCAR…
SPARK is a play by Caridad Svich about three sisters living in the US caught in the mess of a recent war's aftermath. It is about what happens when soldiers…
ALBEMARLE by Caridad Svich. Synopsis: I lives in Mine's house in a town in the edge-lands. I Misses You but won't tell anyone. It's Sunday. And last night was a…
THE ORPHAN SEA by Caridad Svich. This is a story of us, here, now, and also of who we were once. It is a story of those that cross rivers…
What happens when Julia meets Julia? CORAZON ETERNO (always in my heart) by Caridad Svich is a play about love ignited, denied, rekindled, rejected, and renewed; of love pragmatic and…
THE LOVE OF THE GAME. a comedy, of sorts. by Caridad Svich. Synopsis: JB plays golf. They're good at it. It's summer and their old friend Shep comes to visit…
THE LITTLE HOURS and other plays. by Caridad Svich. THE LITTLE HOURS and other plays gathers ten short pieces by Caridad Svich written between 2020 and 2021. The works focus…
THEATRE: A LOVE STORY by Caridad Svich. when there's little time left, what world can we create? What is our theatre? a play-conversation & installation about love, catastrophe, climate grief…
THE BOOK OF MAGDALENE. a play by Caridad Svich. In the edge-lands, in weird times, it's nite-time until it's not. These nites: Magdalene misses Ru and who they could have…
HURT SONG. A play by Caridad Svich. Synopsis: You pick through trash, you are trash, says someone. How do you find your worth in a land that tells you otherwise…
THE TROPIC OF X is a play by 2012 OBIE-award winning playwright Caridad Svich. This five-character play tells the defiant love story of Mori and Maura, two street kids hustling…
This volume collects ten years of conversations and critical reflections by OBIE-winning playwright and arts journalist Caridad Svich. Leading artists profiled in this book include Tim Crouch, Ariel Dorfman, Marguerite…
In Caridad Svich's play GUAPA: Single-mom Roly lives in a dusty Texas town that everyone longs to escape. She's never seen anything like Guapa, a natural-born athlete with a fiery…
THE VANISHED. a play by Caridad Svich. In a house near the sometime sea, a birthday party is being celebrated for the lost children of the earth. A story about…
