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10 Nominations for the 2011 Latin Ace Awards/Premios ACE

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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 in Print: POPULAR FORMS FOR A RADICAL THEATRE

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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)

Dec 12 reading GUAPA

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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/

Lorca’s THE PUBLIC in translation by Caridad Svich in print

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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)

Nov 12, 2011 ABSENCE by Victor Rascon Banda translated by Caridad Svich

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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

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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.com/2011/09/29/interview-caridad-svich/

reading of my translation ABSENCE (EL AUSENTE) — November 12 at 7 PM in NYC

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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

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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