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SPARK receives Chicago premiere on January 22, 2018 at Twenty Percent Theatre Company under Denise Yvette Serna’s direction. https://www.twentypercentchicago.com/spark

RED BIKE has been selected for NNPN’s 2017 National Showcase of New Plays!

link below to article in Broadway World: https://www.broadwayworld.com/philadelphia/article/Works-by-Caridad-Svich-David-Jacobi-Winter-Miller-and-More-Set-for-NNPNs-2017-Showcase-of-New-Plays-20170915

New Essay, “Riding Uphill on a Red Bike” is live as the closing reflection in the Stages of Resistance series, hosted by The Lark Theatre: http://larktheatre.org/blog/riding-uphill-red-bike/

IPHIGENIA CRASH LAND FALLS ON THE NEON SHELL THAT WAS ONCE HER HEART will play July 19 at The Bunker Theatre in Southwark (https://www.bunkertheatre.com/whats-on/iphigenia-a-rave-fable) and July 30 at Bread and Roses Theatre before it heads to Edinburgh Fringe fest this August as a Clumsy Bodies production, August 4-12 at The Space on Niddry Street. Clumsy Bodies is a new London-based company focused on non gender conforming queer and disabled theatre.

IPHIGENIA CRASH LAND FALLS… originally was developed with Actors Touring Company UK and premiered with 7 Stages Theatre in Atlanta. It is published as a single edition playtext by Broadway Play Publishing.

CARTHAGE/CARTAGENA will be seen at Oxford Playhouse on July 7th, 2017 produced by disability arts company Signdance Collective International.
booking: https://www.oxfordplayhouse.com/whats-on/all-shows/carthage/4787/#schedules

the piece is published in my collection JARMAN (all this maddening beauty) and other plays by Intellect UK Ltd. (2016) and this production has been touring with funding from Arts Council England for six months now. Signdance Collective is a UK-based company of international visibly and invisibly disabled dancers, musicians, and actors founded by Isolte Avila and David Bower. Pedro de Senna is the project dramaturg.

RED BIKE is an Honorable Mention in the 2017 Kilroys List.

THE LIST 2017

My essay ‘Taking a Ride on a Red Bike” is live on The Theatre Times

https://thetheatretimes.com/taking-ride-red-bike/

Chaskis Theatre
(Artistic Directors Huw Parmenter and Raymi Ortuste Quiroga)
invite you to a staged reading of

RED BIKE
a new play by Caridad Svich (2012 OBIE for Lifetime Achievement)

Directed by Simon Evans (The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Donmar Warehouse)

Starring Maddy Hill (Imogen, East Enders)

on 21 June, 2017 at 19:30 PM
at the Cervantes Theatre, 229 Union Street, Southwark, London

This reading is a benefit for children’s art charity Anno’s Africa.

“Svich’s RED BIKE is a luminous piece that tackles our common dreams and dangers with magic, poetry, and a sense of both possibility and loneliness. A beautiful work!” — Cristina Garcia (Novelist, Dreaming in Cuban)

“Svich’s RED BIKE is a ride into Trump’s America and the soul of a nation.” — Stephen Wrentmore (Artistic Producer, Lighthouse Poole Centre for the Arts)

“What I admire about Svich’s powerful work is the continual theatrical risks she takes, the poetic layering of too often repressed voices, and the kick in the ass at realism. RED BIKE is a beautiful ride.” — Naomi Wallace (Playwright)

Caridad Svich is the author of over 40 plays including 12 OPHELIAS, ARCHIPELAGO (world premiere, Lighthouse Poole), JARMAN (all this maddening beauty) (Homotopia Festival, LIverpool & Kings College London), IPHIGENIA CRASH LAND FALLS… (developed with Actors Touring Company), CARTHAGE/CARTAGENA (touring with Signdance Collective, funded by Arts Council England), THE BOOTH VARIATIONS (Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh Fringe), THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS (winner of American Theatre Critics Association Primus Prize). She is co-author with Caroline Jester of Fifty Playwrights on Their Craft (Methuen/Bloomsbury Drama, fall 2017), and is associate editor of Contemporary Theatre Review (Taylor & Francis). She is published by Intellect Ltd. UK, Seagull Books, TCG, and more. www.caridadsvich.com

Perusal copies of script available from author’s agent
and on NPX at https://newplayexchange.org/plays/90847/red-bike

Son of Semele Ensemble presents the US premiere of

ARCHIPELAGO

by Caridad Svich (OBIE winner)

Directed by Barbara Kallir

Cast: Michael Evans Lopez and Sarah Rosenberg

May 27 (opening) through June 18, 2017
at Son of Semele Theatre
3301 Beverly Blvd
Los Angeles, CA

promo trailer: https://vimeo.com/216354869

for more info visit: http://www.sonofsemele.org/

**This play originally premiered at Lighthouse Poole Centre for the Arts Sherling Studio in Dorset, England in November 2016 under Stephen Wrentmore’s direction.

http://www.broadwayworld.com/los-angeles/article/Caridad-Svichs-ARCHIPELAGO-to-Make-US-Debut-This-Spring-with-Son-of-Semele-Ensemble-20170427