SEVERED MOON on December 15, 2013 at the Lark

Lark Play Development Center US-Mexico Exchange presents

SEVERED MOON

(LUNA DESMEMBRADA)

by Alberto Castillo

Translated by Caridad Svich

Directed by Debbie Saivetz

on December 15, 2013 at 7 PM

Guadalupe’s son has disappeared. She must find him before the world comes to an end. Will she spend the rest of her days searching, and will he continue to run away from her, as if from a demon? (approx. 75 mins.) Reservations now at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/mexicous-playwright-exchange-program-2013-tickets-8836501213

Oct 12 and 13: SPARK in Arizona

 Arizona Theatre Company’s Cafe Bohemia presents readings ofSpark by Caridad Svich*SPARK is Co-Winner of ATC’s 2013 National Latino Playwriting Award

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.

Saturday, October 12, 2013 @ The Temple Lounge, The Temple of Music and Art330 S. Scott Ave, Tucson AZ 85701@ 9:00pmand

Sunday, October 13, 2013 @ Arizona Latino Arts and Cultural Center

147 E. Adams St, Phoenix AZ 85004

7:00pm


June 2013 update for Caridad Svich

Caridad Svich’s SPARK will be read at the 2013 Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina on June 5 and 6, 2013. For more information visit: SPARK will also be read as part of Kitchen Dog Theater’s 2013 New Works Festival in Dallas, TX on June 22, 2013 under Christie Vela’s direction. For information visit www.kitchendogtheater.org. An invite-only table reading of her new play ARCHIPELAGO will be held at Primary Stages Studio, NYC on June 11, 2013 under Stephen Wrentmore’s direction.

From May 27-June 2nd, NoPassport theatre alliance & press in collaboration with The Vicious Circle presents Gun Control Theatre Action Week with readings in New York City, Los Angeles, San Diego, South Pasadena, Chicago, Washington D.C., Auckland (New Zealand), Merredin (Western Australia), and Potts Point (New South Wales). For more information visit: www.theatreaction.org

She is online curator for the artistic innovation salon for the 2013 TCG National Conference: Learn, Teach, Do, which will be held from June 6-9, 2013 in Dallas, TX, where she will deliver opening remarks to open the artistic innovation conference track. Meanwhile, the salon is live on the TCG Circle blog.

Also this June she is teaching a playwriting intensive for ScriptWorks in Austin, Texas, and a first draft playwriting class for the Einhorn School of the Arts at Primary Stages in New York City.


May 2013 News

Caridad Svich’s HIDE SKY receives a roundtable reading at the Lark Play Development Center in New York City on May 1, 2013 directed by Mia Rovegno; short play THE WAKEreceives reading at Theater Simple in Seattle, WA on May 2nd, 2013 as part of NoPassport’s Gun Control Theatre Action directed by Andrew Litzky; short play SHE receives reading with The Artists Playground Theatre at the Players, NY on May 6, 2013 as part of a Women in Theatre Celebration; SPARK receives reading at Bristol Riverside Theatre in Bristol, PA on May 20, 2013 directed by Jose Zayas. For more information: http://www.brtstage.org/category/production-type/america-risingIN THE TIME OF THE BUTTERFLIES and LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA run in rep at Repertorio Espanol in New York City, both directed by Jose Zayas. For more information: http://www.repertorio.org/productions/index.php?area=ind&id=160.


ARCHAEOLOGY OF DREAMS at UNO in Feb and March 2013

University of Nebraska-Omaha
presents the academic premiere of
ARCHAEOLOGY OF DREAMS
by Caridad Svich
February 19-23, February 28, March 2, 2013
A seriocomic, kaleidoscopic exploration of the intersection between origin, history, and memory as a child is born in the U.S. in the year 1963. A President is about to be assassinated, a country singer dies, a senator falls from grace, and two surfers look for bliss in the imagined Scottish skies.
Directed by Thais Flaitt Giannoccaro (Graduate Final Project)

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