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New Book

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New September 2012 Release from Eyecorner Press:

BLASTED HEAVENS:
Five Contemporary Plays Inspired by the Greeks
by Caridad Svich

Between worlds? Only through a blasted heaven.

THE BOOK: A collection of five daring, radical reconfigurations of ancient plays and myths by US playwright Caridad Svich, winner of a 2012 OBIE for Lifetime Achievement. From the mediatised archival landscape of the haunting Antigone Arkhe to the brutalised labyrinth-city of Steal Back Light from the Virtual to the eerie, broken universe of Wreckage, Svich burns through the core of mythic stories with a heightened sense of theatricality and ecstatic poetry

Request a Review Copy: editor@eyecornerpress.com

THE AUTHOR: Caridad Svich is a playwrightsongwriter-translator and editor of Cuban-Spanish-Argentine-Croatian descent. She is the recipient of a 2012 OBIE for Lifetime Achievement in the theatre, and a 2011 Primus Prize from the American Theatre Critics Association. Among her other key works include 12 Ophelias, Alchemy of Desire/Dead-Man’s Blues, Fugitive Pieces, The Booth Variations, Iphigenia…(a rave fable), Instructions for Breathing, GUAPA, The Way of Water and The House of the Spirits (based on the novel by Isabel Allende.)

ISBN: 978-8792633187 http://www.eyecornerpress.com

All book orders must be placed with either amazon.com or amazon.co.uk

Frank Theatre in Minneapolis presents THE WAY OF WATER

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Frank Theatre in Minneapolis presents from September 14-30, 2012

a workshop production of

THE WAY OF WATER
a new play by Caridad Svich

Directed by Wendy Knox

The Way of Water is a play that pits the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico next to the lives of those affected by it. It’s a play about poverty in America, rumors and truth, what is said and what gets written, and the quest for an honorable life.

Cast: Emily Zimmer, Hope Cervantes, H. Adam Harris, Eric Sharp

Sets: Joseph Stanley
Lights:Michael Wangen
Costumes: Lori Opsal
Sound: Mike Croswell

The Way of Water was developed at the Lark Play Development Center in New York and through a NoPassport theatre alliance intl reading scheme with cooperation from The Earth Institute, Positive Feedback and the Waterkeeper Alliance (www.nopassport.org/wayofwater). The play, with a foreword by Henry Godinez, is the first issue of StageReads. www.stagereads.com

Frank Theatre
performing at The Playwrights Center of Minneapolis
Minneapolis, MNwww.franktheatre.org http://www.franktheatre.org/frank/aboutus/aboutus.html

Sept 5, 2012 roundtable reading of SPARK by Caridad Svich

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Lark Play Development Center presents a roundtable* reading of

SPARK

a new play by Caridad Svich

Director Liaison: Jose Zayas

Cast includes: Audrey Esparza, Keira Keeley, Flor De Liz Perez, Steven Rishard, Juan Francisco Villa 

Dramaturgs: Heather Helinsky, Zac Kline

on Sept 5, 2012 at 6:30 PM

Roundtable readings are closed to the public.

 

“All of us are born to burn.”

–Lexie in Spark

 

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.

Credits: SPARK was publically commissioned by Elaine Avila, Daniel Banks, Raymond Dooley, Amparo Garcia-Crow, Amy Gonzalez, Peter Lichtenfels, Charlotte Meehan, Christi Moore, Flor De Liz Perez, Marisel Polanco, Teresa Perez-Frangie, Otis Ramsey-Zoe, Claudio Raygoza, J.T.Rogers, Meghan Wolf and Tamilla Woodard.

News: Pool (with water) by Caridad Svich on Howlround

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I first dipped my toes into a swimming pool when I was five years old. I was at a hotel in Miami, Florida on holiday with my parents. We had a week in the sun before traveling back to Paterson, New Jersey, where we lived at the time. I was absolutely terrified of swimming, but was attracted to the water, and moreover the freedom everyone in the pool seemed to possess with such remarkable ease. There was something thrilling, sensual and dangerous about the pool, and I was eager to let go of my fear and take my first stab at this thing called “swimming.”

My dad, a former athlete and enviably powerful swimmer, called at me from inside the hotel pool. “Dip your toes in,” he said in his Argentine-inflected Spanish, “and then slowly let yourself in. We’ll learn one step at a time.” The combination of south Florida sun and the slightly inappropriate beauty of a hotel swimming pool steps away from the Atlantic Ocean was too much to resist, and so, I, stepped in.

I don’t know what I expected. Some sort of magic? Life transformation? But the water was just water. Warm from the sun with a slightly cool undertow. I tugged at my blue bathing suit and kept walking into it. My dad was waiting for me and held my hand, and slowly, slowly, I had my first swimming lesson. What I remember most was the feeling—one that continues to this day when I swim, especially in pool water—of absolute yet controlled freedom, and at the same time, eerie otherworldliness. If swimming in the ocean is meeting Nature, swimming in a pool is about meeting yourself, and also an extension of yourself.

Read the whole essay here

new writing class August-September

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NoPassport Writing Extension: Revision and Re/Making the New
with Caridad Svich

August 28-September 28, 2012

A playwriting intensive focused on revision of work, but also, where necessary, creating new work building upon themes from a previous work. All work done via email.

Total cost: $125
Class size maximum: 20

Payments directly online to http://www.fracturedatlas.org/donate/2623

Scheduled Premieres in the 12-13 Season

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Scheduled world and area premieres  for OBIE-winning playwright Caridad Svich in the 2012-2013 theatre season:

Her new play GUAPA will receive an NNPN rolling world premiere at Borderlands Theatre in Arizona, Phoenix Theatre in Indianapolis, and Miracle Theatre in Oregon; her play based on Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ Love in the Time of Cholera will receive its Spanish language world premiere at Repertorio Espanol in the fall in New York City, and her play The Tropic of X will receive its English language premiere at Single Carrot Theatre in Baltimore, MD.

There will also be regional premieres of her bilingual version of In the Time of the Butterflies (based on the novel by Julia Alvarez) at Mixed Blood Theatre in Minneapolis and The House of the Spirits at Gala Hispanic Theatre in Washington D.C.

Academic productions in 2012-2013: 12 Ophelias (a play with broken songs) at USC-Los Angeles, and Chico State in California; The Archaeology of Dreams at University of Nebraska-Omaha.