WRECKAGE

by Caridad Svich

 

Synopsis: Two boys emerge from the sea and become engulfed in a world of savage longing. In this landscape of blurred roles, a mother may be a lover, a boy may be a girl, and power and sex are one. Riffing freely on the story of Medea, Wreckage weaves together moments of disconcerting beauty and pain as the boys search for a home amidst a culture of brutality.

 

Cast: 1 female (30s-40s)), 2 male (30s-40s), 2 male (teens-20s).

Setting: A gleaming house of mirrors, a pristine beach, a boardwalk, and the world of dreams.

Tech requirements: pre-recorded video and live feed.

 

Original Premiere by Crowded Fire Theater Company @ the Boxcar Playhouse in San Francisco, CA

Artistic Director, Marissa Wolf.

 

Original Premiere Run: May 9-June 6, 2009

Directed by Erin Gilley

 

Cast: Laura Jane Coles (Woman), Detroit Dunwood (Second Son), Eric Kerr (First Son), Paul Lancour (Broadcast VO), Lawrence Radecker (Nurse), David Sinaiko (Man)

 

Songs by Caridad Svich

 

Set Design: Evren Odcikin

Lighting Design: Tim Szostek

Costume Design: Bree Hylkema

Sound Design: Marc Blinder

Video Design: Wesley Cabral

Dramaturg: Sonia Fernandez

 

Script History:

 

originally was written while in residence at the Inge Center for the Arts in Kansas, and developed at New Dramatists in New York City in a reading under the direction of Annie Dorsen, and in a PlayTime Studio Retreat workshop directed by Stefan Novinski; subsequently developed at the Hartt School New Play Festival in Connecticut and at Highwire Theatre Testing the Line Reading Series in New York City.

 

This play is inspired in part by Jeff Buckley's cover version of Hank Williams' "Lost Highway."

About Caridad Svich (Playwright)

 

Caridad Svich is a U.S. Latina playwright, translator, lyricist and editor whose works have been produced across the U.S. and abroad at diverse venues including 59E59, The Women's Project, The Pearl Theater, McCarren Park Pool, INTAR, Walkerspace, 7 Stages, Salvage Vanguard, ARTheater-Cologne and Edinburgh Fringe Festival/UK. Her works include “12 Ophelias,” “Any Place But Here,” “Alchemy of Desire/Dead-Man's Blues,” “Antigone Arkhe,” “The Booth Variations,” “Iphigenia...a rave fable” and “The Labyrinth of Desire.”

 

This spring her new plays “Instructions for Breathing” and “Wreckage” received their world premieres, respectively, at Passage Theater/NJ and Crowded Fire/CA (dir. Erin Gilley). She has translated nearly all of Federico Garcia Lorca's dramatic works as well as plays by Lope de Vega, Calderón de La Barca, Julio Cortazar and contemporary works from Mexico and Cuba. She has been a Radcliffe Institute Fellow, NEA/TCG Fellow at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre and a TCG/Pew Charitable Trust Fellow at INTAR. Her works have been published by TCG, Playscripts, Smith & Kraus, BackStage Books, Arte Público Press, Stage & Screen, Heinemann, and Manchester University Press. Svich is an alumna playwright of New Dramatists, founder of NoPassport Theatre Alliance & Press, Associate Editor of Routledge's “Contemporary Theatre Review” and Contributing Editor of “TheatreForum.” Svich is also member of PEN American Center, The Playwrights Center and The Dramatists Guild. She is featured in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Latino History and holds an MFA from University of California, San Diego.

Trailer

Wreckage Trailer from Crowded Fire on Vimeo.

Crowded Fire Theatre Co., San Fransisco CA

(2009) dir. Erin Gilley