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THE WAY OF WATER wins

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The Way of Water by CARIDAD SVICH, is the winner of The Columbia Greene Playwright Project 2014. The play will have a reading on May 3, 2014, at Columbia Greene Community College in Hudson, NY, directed by STEWART J. ZULLY. The project seeks to address the theme “H-2-uh-0; The World’s Water. . . Filtering Out The Dirt.”

March 2014 News

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March 2014 at a theatre/venue near you from Caridad Svich

Caridad Svich’s ARCHIPELAGO is read on March 2nd at Cara Mia Theatre in Dallas, Texas under Stephanie Cleghorn-Jasso and Brad Hennigan direction as part of NoPassport’s 3030 festival. Visit:http://www.caramiatheatre.org/plays/

Caridad Svich’s THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS, based on the Isabel Allende novel, opens March 28, 2014 at Stage Door Teatro in Mexico City under the direction of Artus Chavez Novelo. For more information: https://twiter.com/stagedoormx.

Caridad Svich’s ARCHIPELAGO is read on March 21st by eSe Teatro @ A Contemporary Theatre in Seattle under Rose Cano’s direction. Visit: www.eseteatro.org

Caridad Svich’s translation of Federico Garcia Lorca’s BLOOD WEDDING runs March 27-April 5, 2014 at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada under Kathleen Weiss’ direction. For more information: http://www.drama.ualberta.ca/UofA_Studio_Theatre/Blood%20Wedding.aspx;

the 8th annual NoPassport theatre conference will be held March 29, 2014 at Louisiana State University-Baton Rouge. for more information: http://wp.theatre.lsu.edu/theatre-news/march2014/ ;

News: INSTRUCTIONS FOR BREATHING & OTHER PLAYS publishes Feb 2014

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By 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 centerpiece 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.

SEVERED MOON on December 15, 2013 at the Lark

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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

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 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

Oct 30th at EST: THE HOUR OF ALL THINGS

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Ensemble Studio Theatre presents a memberfest reading of

THE HOUR OF ALL THINGS
a new play by Caridad Svich*

“aren’t we amazing? when we’re in love?”
 
Directed by Jose Zayas

Cast: John Hutton (company member, Denver Center Theatre Company)

A play in nine portraits that confronts the soul of America. A story of a citizen looking at Western democracy in the wake of the Occupy movement. A story of love, country and bad shopping.

On October 30, 2013
@ 4 PM
at Ensemble Studio Theatre, NYC.
549 West 52nd Street, 2nd Floor (between 10th and 11th)

RSVP to thehourofallthings@gmail.com
 
Bio: Caridad Svich (playwright) is recipient of the 2013 National Latino Playwriting Award, 2012 OBIE for Lifetime Achievement, 2012 Edgerton Foundation New Play Award and 2011 American Theatre Critics Association Primus Prize. Her plays include 12 Ophelias, Iphigenia…a rave fable, The Way of Water, and The House of the Spirits, based on the Isabel Allende novel. She is alumna of New Dramatists, founder of NoPassport theatre alliance and press, and Drama Editor of Asymptote literary journal. She is a member of EST. Visit her athttp://www.caridadsvich.com