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Lark Play Development Center, New York City
presents a roundtable reading of

THE WAY OF WATER
a new play by Caridad Svich

directed by Jose Zayas
dramaturg: Heather Helinsky

February 16, 2012 at 2 PM.
This reading is by invitation only,
and not open to the general public.

The Way of Water is a play that pits the BP oil spill next to the lives of those affected by it. It’s a story about four people making do as best they can, living their lives, and just trying to stay afloat in the land of many compromised dreams, as the devastation of a to-this-day mostly under-reported health crisis scandal in the Gulf is played out on a human scale. 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.

The Way of Water was developed at the Winter Writers Retreat at the Lark Play Development Center in New York City.

Albuquerque Journal
has named The Vortex Theatre production of
The House of the Spirits
by Caridad Svich
based on the novel by Isabel Allende
the Best Production of 2011!

10 Nominations for the 2012 Latin Ace Awards/Premios ACE for

IN THE TIME OF THE BUTTERFLIES/
EN EL TIEMPO DE LAS MARIPOSAS
a play by Caridad Svich
based on the novel by Julia Alvarez
Directed by Jose Zayas
and its production at Repertorio Espanol in NYC

Best Production
Best Play: Caridad Svich
Best Director: Jose Zayas
Best Actress: Dalia Davi
Best Actor in a Character Role: Fermin Suarez
Best Actress in a Character Role: Teresa Perez-Frangie
Best Actress in a Shared/Dual Acting Role; Zulema Clares
Best Scenic Design: Robert Federico
Best Costume Design: Robert Federico
Best Sound Design: Jane Shaw

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/paperback/popular-forms-for-a-radical-theatre/18713120

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)

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.php?eid=173413859412622

For more info GUAPA check out interview with the author at: http://msteketee.wordpress.com/2011/09/29/interview-caridad-svich/

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)