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Desdemona’s Child (blood cry) has been acquired for licensing by Theatrical Rights Worldwide (TRW)

Max Langert

You can find the link to the upcoming publication HERE.

PLAY OVERVIEW:

Desdemona’s child comes back to the town in which they were raised, haunted by the ghost of Beautiful D, and with a desire to come to terms with trauma from their past. In this town, trouble rages, as a climate of hate threatens to overtake all. A flood and a whole lotta honest witnessing may start to turn the tide of human darkness. This play is set in modern-day US, freely inspired by and set in the wake of Shakespeare’s Othello.

Find more information about the play on this website HERE.

 

New in Music: “Chavela Vargas” lyrics by Taylor Mac and Caridad Svich, music by Matt Ray featured in Taylor Mac’s Bark of Millions

Kevin Brown

new in music: the song “Chavela Vargas” lyrics by Taylor Mac and Caridad Svich, music by Matt Ray is featured in Taylor Mac’s new four-hour show Bark of Millions, which premieres at the Sydney Opera House on October 20, 2023, and will then be on tour with stops at BAM and more. https://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/birthday-festival/bark-millions

Seagull Books features Instructions for Breathing

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Layout 1By turns astonishing, fierce, and tender, these seven plays by Latina American dramatist Caridad Svich highlight more than two decades of boundary-breaking and genre-defying dramatic work. Populated by characters struggling to survive, these plays are joined by thematic threads of loss, remembrance, resurrection, grave wit and heroic survival.

The centrepiece of this collection, Instructions for Breathing, is a lyrical, dreamlike meditation on responsibility and parenthood that asks an audience not only to suffer the unthinkable loss of a child as Svich’s characters do, but also to laugh at the couple’s flaws and at the hilarity of the suburban life they lead. This commingling of emotion happens in each of these dramatic portraits of homeless castaways (Fugitive Pieces), women in war (Thrush) and sex traffickers (Rift). And Svich’s work is not without a nod to the classical: Wreckage reframes the story of Medea and Steal Back Light from the Virtual depicts a labyrinthine society torn apart by a monstrous beast. In sum, Instructions for Breathing and Other Plays serves as an illuminating introduction to the work of a major playwright and an inspiring example of the breadth of possibilities in North American drama.

ISBN : 9780857421111

[HB] Rs 525 / $25.00/ £16.00

Available at the Seagull Books Store and online in India here and World here.

THE BREATH OF THEATRE

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New April 2013 from NoPassport Press:THE BREATH OF THEATRE
Conversations & Reflections, 2003-2013.
by Caridad Svich

This volume collects ten years of conversations and critical reflections by OBIE-winning playwright and arts journalist Caridad Svich. Leading artists profiled in this book include Tim Crouch, Ariel Dorfman, Marguerite Feitlowitz, Philip Kan Gotanda, Charles Mee, Jr., Jose Rivera, Andrei Serban,and Heather Woodbury. A vital volume on the art-making process and its power for transformation.

ISBN: 978-1-300-88963-2
Suggested Retail: $25.00
6 X 9 paperback.
435 pages.

Direct purchase link:http://www.lulu.com/shop/caridad-svich/the-breath-of-theatre/paperback/product-20949171.html

NoPassport Press www.nopassport.org

 

My America

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My monologue WONDER, part of the My America series at Center Stage, is now live online as a short film directed by Hal Hartley.

Caridad Svich from CENTERSTAGE on Vimeo.

 

Wonder by Caridad Svich

Caridad Svich is recipient of a 2012 OBIE for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, and a 2011 Primus Prize from the American Theatre Critics Association. She has been short-listed four times for the PEN USA Award in Drama, including in 2012 for her play Magnificent Waste. She is alumna of New Dramatists, founder of NoPassport theatre alliance & press, associate editor of Routledge/UK’s Contemporary Theatre Review, and Drama Editor of Asymptotejournal. Visit her at caridadsvich.com.

Performed by Flor De Liz Perez

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

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