As of December, 12, 2011, Caridad Svich has been accepted for lifetime membership to Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York City.
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New in Print: POPULAR FORMS FOR A RADICAL THEATRE
New from NoPassport Press
POPULAR FORMS FOR A RADICAL THEATRE
edited by Caridad Svich and Sarah Ruhl
POPULAR FORMS FOR A RADICAL THEATRE is a collection of articles and interviews edited by playwrights Caridad Svich and Sarah Ruhl exploring populism, theatre practice, and radicalism. The book includes essays by Todd London, W. David Hancock, Diane Paulus, Aleks Sierz, Will Eno, Jonathan Kalb, Michael Friedman and interviews with Eugenio Barba, Dijana Milosevic, Nina Steiger, Scott Graham, Richard Maxwell and Brian Mendes. A vital and provocative collection for students, practitioners, and scholars in theatre and performance. This volume, in part, was originally published as a special issue of Contemporary Theatre Review, and with the journal’s permission, is now available for general readership for the first time.
ISBN: 978-0-578-09809-8.
Paperback. 205pp.
Available for $20.00 print on demand at link: http://www.lulu.com/product/
Currently available on www.lulu.com,
For more information visit: www.nopassport.org
NoPassport: Dreaming the Americas
Series Editors: Jorge Huerta, Mead K. Hunter, Randy Gener, Otis Ramsey-Zoe, Stephen Squibb and Caridad Svich (founding editor)
Dec 12 reading GUAPA
soccer, grrl power, family, borderlands…beautiful…
welcome to the world of GUAPA
NoPassport invites you to a public reading of
GUAPA
a new play by Caridad Svich.
Directed by Jose Zayas
In a small Texas town, caught in the long history of class struggle & racism, live Roly, a single mother, and her makeshift family. Taken in by the family is a young woman named simply Guapa (Beautiful), who dreams of playing women’s soccer. This is a story about a working class community trying to make ends meet with magical dreams of sports, graffiti, birds in flight, indigenous history, trauma, recovery, and the viable possibilities of a better life.
Cast: Audrey Esparza, Maggie Bofill, Flor De Liz Perez, Bobby Moreno and Rey Lucas.
Dramaturg: Heather Helinsky.
MONDAY DECEMBER 12, 2011 at 3:00 PM
at Gramercy Arts Theatre,
Repertorio Espanol, 138 East 27th Street (at Lexington Avenue), NYC.
Rsvp to NoPassportPress@aol.com, Admission is free.
Facebook invite at http://www.facebook.com/event.
For more info GUAPA check out interview with the author at: http://msteketee.wordpress.
Lorca’s THE PUBLIC in translation by Caridad Svich in print
Caridad Svich’s translation of Federico Garcia Lorca’s play THE PUBLIC is published in
The Routledge Drama Anthology and Sourcebook edited by Maggie Gale and John Deeney is a groundbreaking compilation of the key movements in the history of modern theatre, from the late Nineteenth Century to contemporary performance practice.
Each of the book’s five sections comprises a selection of plays and performance texts that define their period, reproduced in full and accompanied by key theoretical writings of performers and critics that inform and contextualise their reading. Substantial introductions from experts in the field also provide these sections with an overview of the works and their significance.
This textbook provides an unprecedented collection of comprehensive resource materials which will facilitate in-depth critical analysis. It enables a dialogue between Chekhov, Strindberg, Lorca, Marinetti and Artaud, Brecht, Churchill, Fornes, Ravenhill and Gómez-Peňa, amongst many other key practitioners.
Maggie B. Gale is Chair of Drama at the University of Manchester (UK). She is the co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Actress; author of West End Women: Women on the London Stage 1918-1962, and J.B.Priestley from the series Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatists.
John F. Deeney is Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK), Editor of Writing Live and author of the book Mark Ravenhill from the series Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatists.
- ISBN-13: 978-0415466066
- Publisher: Routledge (2010)
New in Print: KILL TO EAT (a patriot’s song) in Seven Devils Playwrights Conf.
Newly published by IndieTheaterNow:
KILL TO EAT (a patriot’s song)
in
The Seven Devils Playwrights Conference Collection
curated by Jeni Mahoney
Nov 12, 2011 ABSENCE by Victor Rascon Banda translated by Caridad Svich
6th ANNUAL
U.S. / MÉXICO
PLAYWRIGHT EXCHANGE
in collaboration with FONCA (México’s National Fund for Culture and Arts) presents
saturday, november 12, 2011 – 7pm
ABSENCE (EL AUSENTE)
by Victor Hugo Rascón Banda
translated by Caridad Svich
Directed by Barclay Goldsmith
Three generations of a Mexico City family endure the absence of a son and husband who have left for the United States. The epic journey of the migrant northward too often overshadows the stories of the loved ones left behind– this play tells their story.
Cast includes: Teresa Yenque, Mateo Gomez, Bernardo Cubria, Maria Helan Lopez.
public readings will be @ the LARK BAREBONES STUDIO
311 w 43rd street, 5th floor (btw 8th & 9th avenues)
Reservations at www.larktheatre.org
This program is a collaboration between the Lark and Conaculta/FONCA (México’s National Fund for Culture and Arts) with support from The Mexican Cultural Institute of New York, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Our official hotel sponsor: Washington Jefferson Hotel.
December 12, 2011 public reading in NYC of GUAPA by Caridad Svich
NoPassport invites you to a public reading of
GUAPA
a new play by Caridad Svich.
Directed by Jose Zayas
In a small Texas town, caught in the long history of class struggle & racism, live Roly, a single mother, and her makeshift family. Taken in by the family is a young woman named simply Guapa (Beautiful), who dreams of playing women’s soccer. This is a story about a working class community trying to make ends meet with magical dreams of sports, graffiti, birds in flight, indigenous history, trauma, recovery, and the viable possibilities of a better life.
Cast: Audrey Esparza, Maggie Bofill, Flor De Liz Perez, Bernardo Cubria and Rey Lucas.
Dramaturg: Heather Helinsky.
MONDAY DECEMBER 12, 2011 at 3:00 PM
at Gramercy Arts Theatre,
Repertorio Espanol, 138 East 27th Street (at Lexington Avenue), NYC.
Rsvp to NoPassportPress@aol.com, Admission is free.
For more info GUAPA check out interview with the author at: http://msteketee.wordpress.
reading of my translation ABSENCE (EL AUSENTE) — November 12 at 7 PM in NYC
6th ANNUAL
U.S. / MÉXICO
PLAYWRIGHT EXCHANGE
in collaboration with FONCA (México’s National Fund for Culture and Arts)
saturday, november 12 – 7pm
ABSENCE (EL AUSENTE)
by Victor Hugo Rascón Banda
translated by Caridad Svich
Three generations of a Mexico City family endure the absence of a son and husband who have left for the United States. The epic journey of the migrant northward too often overshadows the stories of the loved ones left behind– this play tells their story.
all public readings will be @ the LARK BAREBONES STUDIO
311 w 43rd street, 5th floor (btw 8th & 9th avenues)
Subway: 1, 2, 3, A, C, E, N, Q, R to Times Square
This program is a collaboration between the Lark and Conaculta/FONCA (México’s National Fund for Culture and Arts) with support from The Mexican Cultural Institute of New York, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Our official hotel sponsor: Washington Jefferson Hotel.
LA CASA DE LOS ESPIRITUS en Miami
Miami Dade College North Campus Actors Arena 2011
presents
LA CASA DE LOS ESPIRITUS
by Caridad Svich
based on the novel by Isabel Allende
Directed by Max Ferra
Free Spanish language performances: October 21-23, 28-30, and November 4-6
The Lehman Theatre, 11380 NW 27th Avenue, Miami, FlA 33127, 305-237-1505
Updated Info: The St. Louis Premiere of THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI – ST. LOUIS
College of Fine Arts and Communication
Department of Theatre, Dance & Media Studies
presentsThe St. Louis Premiere of the 2011 ATCA Francesca Primus Prize for Playwriting
College of Fine Arts and Communication
Department of Theatre, Dance & Media Studies
presentsThe St. Louis Premiere of the 2011 ATCA Francesca Primus Prize for Playwriting
THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS
a new play with songs by Caridad Svich
based on the novel by Isabel Allende
a new play with songs by Caridad Svich
based on the novel by Isabel Allende
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OCTOBER 14-22, 2011
The Lee Theater @ Touhill Performing Arts CenterThe House of the Spirits paints a family portrait over four generations of political, social and familial upheaval. This epic play, inspired by Isabel Allende’s prizewinning story, evokes the pride, passion and triumph of characters living in turbulent times. Playwright Caridad Svich’s English-language adaptation will receive its first major St. Louis production at UMSL. The play has previously been produced in Spanish in Chile and at Repertorio Español in New York City, and in English at the Denver Center Theatre Company.
OCTOBER 14-22, 2011
The Lee Theater @ Touhill Performing Arts CenterThe House of the Spirits paints a family portrait over four generations of political, social and familial upheaval. This epic play, inspired by Isabel Allende’s prizewinning story, evokes the pride, passion and triumph of characters living in turbulent times. Playwright Caridad Svich’s English-language adaptation will receive its first major St. Louis production at UMSL. The play has previously been produced in Spanish in Chile and at Repertorio Español in New York City, and in English at the Denver Center Theatre Company.
Author Isabel Allende, who last year was awarded Chile’s National Literature Prize, published her debut novel “The House of the Spirits”in 1982. It quickly became an international best-seller and critical success. Set in a fictional Latin American country, the novel spans more than 50 years, dealing with themes of oppression, tyranny, gender and class issues, but also romance, love, healing and forgiveness.
directed by Tlaloc Rivas
set, lighting & projection design by Glen Anderson
costume & puppetry design by Felia Davenport
dramaturgy by Megan Monaghan Rivas
sound design by Glen Anderson & Tlaloc Rivas
dance choreography by Belicia Beck
fight choreography by Tlaloc Rivas
music arranged & performed by Matthew Wiseman
with
Ashley Bauman, Sydney Daniels, Sean Green,
Destiny Hanlin, Rachel Ligon, Michael Pierce,
Sophie Powell, Juan Shivers, Samantha Smith
& Ben Watts
8 Performances ONLY:
Friday October 14th at 7:30pm (Opening Night)
Saturday October 15th at 7:30pm
Sunday October 16th at 3pm (w/post-show panel w/Caridad Svich & UMSL faculty)
Tuesday October 18th at 9am (Special Student Matinee)
Wednesday October 19th at 7:30pm (All seats $3)
Thursday October 20th at 7:30pm
Friday October 21st at 7:30pm
Saturday October 22nd at 7:30pm (Closing Night)
Tickets at www.touhill.org or 314.516.4949
$10 General Admission / $5 Students w/School ID
For more information, please contact Tlaloc Rivas, Assistant Professor of Theatre
at 314.516.4850 or email: RivasT@umsl.edu