http://www.unomaha.edu/cfam/eventscalendar.php
University of Nebraska-Omaha College of Communication, Fine Arts and Media
and its Department of Theatre
presents
12 OPHELIAS
(a play with broken songs)
by Caridad Svich
November 16-19 and November 30-December 3, 2011
* Theatre performances will start at 7:30 p.m. in the University of Nebraska-Omaha Theatre, Weber Fine Arts Building, unless otherwise noted. Call the University of Nebraska-Omaha Theatre Box Office for tickets, 554-PLAY (7529).
http://performancestudies.tamu.edu/events/blueprint-theatre
Blueprint Theatre,
the summer theatre company for the Texas A & M Department of Performance Studies,
presents
Antigone Arkhe
by Caridad Svich
directed by Evleen Nasir
Antigone Arkhe by Caridad Svich is an innovative interpretation that juxtaposes Sophocles’ Antigone against the background of both a museum and technological recordings of life in a modern war zone. The play collapses time in order to tell the similar stories of Antigone and that of a girl currently living in the Middle East.
Performances: July 1, 3, 8, 10, 15, 17, 2011
The show will be running in repertoire with Theresa Rebeck’s Bad Dates in the Fallout Theatre. Shows will run on alternating nights, Thursday- Saturday, for the first three weekends in July beginning on June 30th at 7:30 pm. There will also be 2:00 pm matinees on all three Sundays. All performances are free and open to the public.
“On their last day of class, students in Drama 210 meet the playwright for whom they’ve been designing a set — for the second time. But the School of Drama didn’t have to pay the playwright’s airfare and hotel bills; her visits came via Skype.
It’s all part of the major assignment students have in the Theater Technical Practice class, which introduces undergraduate students to the art of designing sets. They’re asked to read a play, talk to the playwright about it and then — with another student as a partner — design a set for it. At the end of the quarter, the playwright looks at and comments on models of the sets students have created….
“The subject this quarter is Caridad Svich, author of a play called Magnificent Waste that recently had its premiere at a small theater in Washington, D.C. Svich was smiling and relaxed, and seemed happy to answer as many questions as the students could throw at her. It even turned out that though the play is set in the New York art world, it has a local connection. She did the major writing on it while she was a writer-in-residence at Hedgbrook on Whidbey Island.
For many of the students, talking to the playwright makes a difference…
Read the whole thing here.