Month: August 2026

No judgment when you are waiting, only the stark reminder that you are alive. A darkly comic portrait of a person witnessing the world.

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Credits
written by Caridad Svich
directed by Allyson Dwyer
with Lianne El Souki and Harold Lehmann
sound design by Robin Margolis
engineered + mastered by Kegan Zema
recorded at Spaceman Sound

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About the artist
Caridad Svich (playwright) has received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Drama, an Obie for Lifetime Achievement and the ATCA Primus Prize, among other honors. Key works include 12 OPHELIAS, RED BIKE, IPHIGENIA CRASH LAND FALLS… , THE WAY OF WATER and IN THE TIME OF THE BUTTERFLIES (based on Julia Alvarez’ novel). They have edited several books on performance, among them TRANSMEDIA THEATRE PLAYS and TOWARD A FUTURE THEATRE (Methuen Drama). Feature Film: FUGITIVE DREAMS on Apple TV. She is published by TRW Plays, TCG, Intellect and more. She is founder of NoPassport theatre alliance and press.

The fabulously talented Luis Alfaro wrote about Caridad in a recent Substack article which begins this way:

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I am pretty sure that I met the most unique and lovely writer, Caridad Svich, over thirty years ago, in 1994, in the PlayLab’s Festival at the Playwrights Center in Minneapolis.


She presented a beautiful poetic, dramatic piece of art called ‘Alchemy Of Desire/Dead-Man’s Blues’, which was directed by another soon-to-be great friend, Lisa Peterson.


I remember that it partly took place in a swamp, was about a dead soldier, who also appeared in the play, and had original songs that Caridad wrote.


One of its themes involved fried chicken, and actors were walking around with Kentucky Fried Chicken buckets for shoes.

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You can read the lovely tribute in its entirety HERE.