Month: September 2012

New Book

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New September 2012 Release from Eyecorner Press:

BLASTED HEAVENS:
Five Contemporary Plays Inspired by the Greeks
by Caridad Svich

Between worlds? Only through a blasted heaven.

THE BOOK: A collection of five daring, radical reconfigurations of ancient plays and myths by US playwright Caridad Svich, winner of a 2012 OBIE for Lifetime Achievement. From the mediatised archival landscape of the haunting Antigone Arkhe to the brutalised labyrinth-city of Steal Back Light from the Virtual to the eerie, broken universe of Wreckage, Svich burns through the core of mythic stories with a heightened sense of theatricality and ecstatic poetry

Request a Review Copy: editor@eyecornerpress.com

THE AUTHOR: Caridad Svich is a playwrightsongwriter-translator and editor of Cuban-Spanish-Argentine-Croatian descent. She is the recipient of a 2012 OBIE for Lifetime Achievement in the theatre, and a 2011 Primus Prize from the American Theatre Critics Association. Among her other key works include 12 Ophelias, Alchemy of Desire/Dead-Man’s Blues, Fugitive Pieces, The Booth Variations, Iphigenia…(a rave fable), Instructions for Breathing, GUAPA, The Way of Water and The House of the Spirits (based on the novel by Isabel Allende.)

ISBN: 978-8792633187 http://www.eyecornerpress.com

All book orders must be placed with either amazon.com or amazon.co.uk

Frank Theatre in Minneapolis presents THE WAY OF WATER

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Frank Theatre in Minneapolis presents from September 14-30, 2012

a workshop production of

THE WAY OF WATER
a new play by Caridad Svich

Directed by Wendy Knox

The Way of Water is a play that pits the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico next to the lives of those affected by it. It’s a play about poverty in America, rumors and truth, what is said and what gets written, and the quest for an honorable life.

Cast: Emily Zimmer, Hope Cervantes, H. Adam Harris, Eric Sharp

Sets: Joseph Stanley
Lights:Michael Wangen
Costumes: Lori Opsal
Sound: Mike Croswell

The Way of Water was developed at the Lark Play Development Center in New York and through a NoPassport theatre alliance intl reading scheme with cooperation from The Earth Institute, Positive Feedback and the Waterkeeper Alliance (www.nopassport.org/wayofwater). The play, with a foreword by Henry Godinez, is the first issue of StageReads. www.stagereads.com

Frank Theatre
performing at The Playwrights Center of Minneapolis
Minneapolis, MNwww.franktheatre.org http://www.franktheatre.org/frank/aboutus/aboutus.html

Sept 5, 2012 roundtable reading of SPARK by Caridad Svich

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Lark Play Development Center presents a roundtable* reading of

SPARK

a new play by Caridad Svich

Director Liaison: Jose Zayas

Cast includes: Audrey Esparza, Keira Keeley, Flor De Liz Perez, Steven Rishard, Juan Francisco Villa 

Dramaturgs: Heather Helinsky, Zac Kline

on Sept 5, 2012 at 6:30 PM

Roundtable readings are closed to the public.

 

“All of us are born to burn.”

–Lexie in Spark

 

Spark is a play about three sisters living in the US caught in the mess of a recent war’s aftermath. It is about what happens when soldiers come home, when women of little economic means must find a way to make do and carry on, and the strength, ultimately, of family. A contemporary US story of faith, love, war, trauma, and a bit of healing.

Credits: SPARK was publically commissioned by Elaine Avila, Daniel Banks, Raymond Dooley, Amparo Garcia-Crow, Amy Gonzalez, Peter Lichtenfels, Charlotte Meehan, Christi Moore, Flor De Liz Perez, Marisel Polanco, Teresa Perez-Frangie, Otis Ramsey-Zoe, Claudio Raygoza, J.T.Rogers, Meghan Wolf and Tamilla Woodard.