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ARCHAEOLOGY OF DREAMS at UNO in Feb and March 2013

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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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Behind the Curtain Interview With Caridad Svich

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Philip Hernandez (PH): In regards to starting out in writing, you stress the importance of continually writing and editing; “editing is a way of continually trying to discover the core of the work itself: what needs to be there.” What is the next most important thing for budding artists?

(CS): Listening to the work is the next most important thing. Really listening. Not only to others read it aloud, but speaking it out loud yourself and listening to the heartbeat of the work. Every theatre text has an essential pulse, tempo, rhythm – something essential that carries through the various dynamics at work over the course of a play. This is why many people say “What is a play about?” I don’t think the question has to do with a “message” or “issue.” The “about” has to do with its heartbeat – where does the piece want to go, where does it want to touch the audience and how (if it does) sensually? Theatre is about the senses being awakened as much as it is about the perceptual shift(s) mentally that being open to a three-dimensional event in space demands from an audience..

 

Read the full interview

News: Five Uneasy Pieces by Caridad Svich in Howlround

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Just published in Howlround
December 9, 2012
Five Uneasy Pieces
by Caridad Svich
An essay editor Polly Carl calls “one of the more insightful pieces about how an artist thinks about adventures in form and content, and the artistic journey through the popular and the impossible. Every playwright and theater artist for that matter must read…”

News: BUTTERFLIES extends in Uruguay and NYC

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IN THE TIME OF THE BUTTERFLIES/EN EL TIEMPO DE LAS MARIPOSAS
by Caridad Svich
Based on the novel by Julia Alvarez
has extended its performances in Montevideo, Uruguay at the Teatro Circular directed by Alicia Dogliotti until December 16, 2012.
Meanwhile, its performances at Repertorio Espanol in New York City directed by Jose Zayas have extended until May 2013.

SPARK reading scheme

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Caridad Svich’s new play SPARK will honor US war veterans this November with multiple readings

 

An initial line-up of organizations that will present 2012 OBIE Award-winning playwright Caridad Svich’s new play Spark has been announced. This work, which is about a family of sisters who live in North Carolina, one of whom is a returning veteran from a recent war, is being made available for local presentations during the month of November (and selected venues in October) to honor US war veterans, shed light on the plight of female veterans in particular, and to raise increased awareness for their stories, by NoPassport theatre alliance & press, an unincorporated collective dedicated to the advocacy, production and publication of works expressive of cross-cultural and aesthetic diversity in the arts.

 

A special reading of the play will be held at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York City on November 11, 2012 produced by T.e.l. and Mannatee Films, in collaboration with NoPassport, under Scott Schwartz’ direction (casting TBA soon). Among the other theaters and venues that will be presenting the play are Atomic Age Theater Company in collaboration with Emerson College in Boston, MA; Bristol Riverside Theater in Bristol, PA; Cummins Theatre in Western Australia; Ex-Pats Theatre in Chicago, IL; Off-the-Hyphen Productions in Baton Rouge, LA; Moxie Productions in Vermont; New Dramatists in NYC; Profile Theatre in Portland, OR; Pygmalion Theatre in Salt Lake City, UT; Trap Door Theatre in Chicago, IL; Vortex Theatre in Albuquerque, NM;  Working Title Playwrights in Atlanta, GA; and over fifteen US universities including Penn State University, Reed College and the University of Washington-Seattle in collaboration with The Hansberry Project. Additional presenting venues will be announced in the near future.

 

The play was commissioned by, among others, JT Rogers, Peter Lichtenfels, and Tamilla Woodard, and was developed, in part, at the Lark Play Development Center in New York City. Spark is a two-act play with five characters that focuses on poverty in America, what happens when soldiers come home, and the strength, ultimately, of family. Caridad Svich’s other plays include 12 Ophelias, The Way of Water, and The House of the Spirits, based on the novel by Isabel Allende. The line producer for the NoPassport reading scheme for Spark is Lanie Zipoy, and the dramaturgy team is led by Zac Kline with Heather Helinsky (as consulting dramaturg). The play’s premiere has not yet been announced.

For more information about Caridad Svich’s Spark, visit http://www.nopassport.org/spark

 

NoPassport theatre alliance and press, Email: NoPassportPress@aol.com,Website: http://www.nopassport.org