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2013 Bat of Minerva Interview with Caridad Svich

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 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

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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

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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

Incognita Presents Iphigenia…(a rave fable) in Downtown Storefront this March

“…a throbbing, daring multimedia freakout.” (Denver Post)

MEET THE PLAYWRIGHT: Caridad Svich will speak at CSMA at 7:30 Wed Mar 14 about her work as a playwright and Incognita will present scenes from IPHIGENIA.

The full title of this astonishing play by award-winning playwright Caridad Svich is “Iphigenia Crash Land Falls on the Neon Shell That Was Once Her Heart (a rave fable)”

As Svich describes her work, “This play hurls one of Greek tragedy’s most compelling sagas into a sleek netherworld of sex, drugs and trance music. Iphigenia is the daughter of a political celebrity who embraces sensuous excess with a transgendered glam rock star named Achilles in a desperate attempt to flee her inevitable fate.”

Incognita proudly collaborates with Cornell’s Teatrotaller and the Latino Civic Association to present the regional premiere of this play by one of our leading Latina playwrights.

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New from Eyecorner Press:

 OUT OF SILENCE: Censorship in Theatre & Performance

(theatre, performance, criticism)

CARIDAD SVICH, editor

JUST RELEASED: February, 2012

ISBN: ISBN: 978-8792633149

This collection of essays on the subject of theatre and various forms of censorship gathers in an original and stimulating manner the voices of academics, practitioners and artist-scholars, among them Chantal Bilodeau, Stephen Bottoms, Marvin Carlson, Tim Crouch, Stephen J. Duncombe, Rinde Eckert, Randy Gener, Matthew Goulish, Baz Kershaw, Joanna Laurens, Carl Lavery, Christopher Shinn, and Aleks Sierz. Edited by playwright, scholar and activist Caridad Svich, Out of Silence is an impassioned volume that focuses not only on governmental censorship, but also on the self-censorship of theatre artists in the process of theatre-making and performance.
“This insightful book should be read by theatre practitioners and administrators, and especially by those who guide the future generations of theatre artists who hopefully will be able to help create a vital theatre.” – Ted Shank

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