Month: March 2014

April 2014 productions/readings

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April 2014: at a theatre near you from Caridad Svich

Caridad Svich’s gender-bending comedy THE LABYRINTH OF DESIRE (adapted/translated from Lope de Vega) runs April 3-11, 2014 at Fordham University in New York City under Jessi D. Hill’s direction. Visit: http://www.fordham.edu/academics/programs_at_fordham_/theatre_department/shows_and_events/mainstage_season_69134.asp#Labyrinth;
Caridad Svich’s IN THE TIME OF THE BUTTERFLIES (based on Julia Alvarez novel) runs April 4-May 4th at Teatro Nagual in Sacramento under Richard Falcon’s direction. Visit:http://www.teatronagual.com/Upcoming_Events.html

Caridad Svich’s ARCHIPELAGO receives reading April 6 at 7 PM with Sankofa Theatre in collaboration with Teatro Vista and NoPassport’s 30/30 in Chicago, Ilinois at Angel Island Theater under the direction of Kristen Johnson. Visit: https://www.facebook.com/events/1451637758401516/

Caridad Svich’s translation of Federico Garcia Lorca’s BLOOD WEDDING runs April 9-13, 2014 at Nortre Dame University in Indiama under Anton Juan’s direction. Visit: http://performingarts.nd.edu/calendar/view.aspx?id=3837 ;

Caridad Svich’s THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS (based on the Isabel Allende novel) continues through April 13, 2014 at Teatro Expressivo in Pinares, Costa Rica under the direction of Jose Zayas and Jody Steiger. For more information: http://www.espressivo.cr/

Caridad Svich’s JARMAN (all this maddening beauty), inspired by life and work of queer icon Derek Jarman, runs April 17-28, 2014 at Atlas Performing Arts Center in Washington D.C. under John Moletress’ direction as a force/collision production. For more info visit: http://force-collision.org/jarman and http://atlasarts.org/events/2011/07/jarman-all-this-maddening-beauty/ Note: There will be livestream performance on April 20th at 4 PM EST on Howlround.

Caridad Svich’s NOBODY’s CHILDREN receives memberfest reading on April 24 at 3 PM at Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York City under Jose Zayas’ direction. Visit: https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/134/1396393200000

Seagull Books features Instructions for Breathing

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Layout 1By turns astonishing, fierce, and tender, these seven plays by Latina American dramatist Caridad Svich highlight more than two decades of boundary-breaking and genre-defying dramatic work. Populated by characters struggling to survive, these plays are joined by thematic threads of loss, remembrance, resurrection, grave wit and heroic survival.

The centrepiece of this collection, Instructions for Breathing, is a lyrical, dreamlike meditation on responsibility and parenthood that asks an audience not only to suffer the unthinkable loss of a child as Svich’s characters do, but also to laugh at the couple’s flaws and at the hilarity of the suburban life they lead. This commingling of emotion happens in each of these dramatic portraits of homeless castaways (Fugitive Pieces), women in war (Thrush) and sex traffickers (Rift). And Svich’s work is not without a nod to the classical: Wreckage reframes the story of Medea and Steal Back Light from the Virtual depicts a labyrinthine society torn apart by a monstrous beast. In sum, Instructions for Breathing and Other Plays serves as an illuminating introduction to the work of a major playwright and an inspiring example of the breadth of possibilities in North American drama.

ISBN : 9780857421111

[HB] Rs 525 / $25.00/ £16.00

Available at the Seagull Books Store and online in India here and World here.