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JUNE 2009

 

id theater announces its
2009 Seven Devils Playwrights Conference

June 9-21, 2009 at the McAlpine Playhouse in McCall, Idaho
with this year's Guest Playwright: Caridad Svich
with her new play A Patriot Song

http://www.idtheater.org/7devils/history/2009.php
 

 

MAY 2009

 

NoPassport theatre alliance & press
in collaboration with the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
presents

HIBERNATING RATTLESNAKES*
An Evening of Excerpts from and Short Works for Performance
with MC Ephraim Lopez*
written and read by

Mando Alvarado
Maria Alexandra Beech
Leila Buck
Susana Cook
Kristoffer Diaz
Randy Gener
John Jesurun
Lanna Joffrey
Matthew Paul Olmos
Caridad Svich
Andrea Thome


May 25th, 2009. Doors open 7 PM
Event begins 7:30 PM
Suggested Donations: $5 at the door.
.
@ Nuyorican Poets Cafe
236 3rd Street (bet B & C), NYC

 

 

 

"Caridad Svich Opens Up Brecht and New Show at Repertorio Espanol"

Published The Brecht Society (online) June 2009 on www.ecibs.org

 

Interview will be in print (Hard copy) in the Fall 2009 Brecht Society Journal publication.

 

http://www.ecibs.org/new/interview/caridad-svich-opens-about-brecht-and-new-show-repetorio-espa%C3%B1ol

 

 

 

APRIL 2009

 

Isabel Allende visits Repertorio Español

 

World renowned author Isabel Allende visits Repertorio Español to see the theatrical adaptation of her novel “La casa de los espíritus” (The House of the Spirits) by Caridad Svich and directed by José Zayas.

The production, which premiered on February 18 at Repertorio Español, has received great critical acclaim and continues to play to full houses at Repertorio’s Gramercy Arts Theatre on East 27th Street. Allende will visit the theater on Saturday, April 11, 2009 for the 3pm performance and will participate of a Q&A session afterwards along with Svich and Zayas.

 

Interview with Isabel Allende after she attended our production this weekend.

http://caracol.com.co/nota.aspx?id=793695

 

 

In a world of hurry, what's the cost of playing? Jon and Sara return home one night to find that their child, Sonya, has mysteriously vanished through a casual act of neglect. Her disappearance turns her parents – and the community – upside down with regrets, judgments, and gossip; but also galvanizes them to take responsibility for their own fate in today's global and frenetic society. This lyrical, dreamlike drama exposes tragedy in the modern world – personal, private and public – in a fiercely witty look at love, lies and the language we use to disguise our hearts.
 

Click HERE for more information
 

 

Crowded Fire Theater Company presents

on its Mainstage

WRECKAGE
a World Premiere by Caridad Svich
directed by Erin Gilley
May 9 – June 6, 2009
The Boxcar Playhouse
505 Natoma St., San Francisco

Two boys emerge from the sea and become engulfed in a world of savage longing and desire. A Woman, Husband, and male Nurse find and care for the boys, who experience sexual awakening amidst a landscape of blurred roles and definitions, where a mother may be a lover, and a boy may be a girl. Drawing on the Greek myth of Medea, this sharply crafted play examines the role of displaced persons searching for home amidst a culture of brutality. This world premiere brings the work of luminary playwright Caridad Svich to the Bay Area for the first time. The stylized, poetic language of Svich’s theatrical landscape carves out each moment with a disconcerting precision.

 

Click HERE for more information
 

 

2009 NoPassport Conference podcast link for Svich interview

http://kadmusarts.com/blog/?p=888

 

 

 

MARCH 2009

 

 

NoPassport theatre alliance & press
in collaboration with the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
presents
 
HIBERNATING RATTLESNAKES*
An Evening of Excerpts from and Short Works for Performance
with MC Ephraim Lopez*
written and read by
 
Maria Alexandra Beech
Kristoffer Diaz
Randy Gener
Lanna Joffrey
Alejandro Morales
Matthew Paul Olmos
Caridad Svich
Saviana Stanescu
 
March 30th, 2009
Doors open 7 PM
Event begins 7:30 PM
Suggested Donations: $5 at the door.
.
@ Nuyorican Poets Cafe
236 3rd Street (bet B & C), NYC
 
www.nuyorican.org and http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=55696338879

 

FEBRUARY 2009

 

*February 13th- March 7th, 2009.. a valentine Rave from SVT to you...

Salvage Vanguard Theatre presents the Texas premiere of

 

 

 

premiere of

LA CASA DE LOS ESPIRITUS (The House of the Spirits)
a play by Caridad Svich, based on the novel by Isabel Allende
directed by Jose Zayas
commissioned and produced by Repertorio Espanol/Spanish Rep, New York City
premiere: February 2009

 

CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION

Click here: PEN American Center - Caridad Svich on Public Lives/Private Lives

 

Four New Play Anthologies from NoPassport Press Launched at "Dreaming the Americas" Conference

 

JANUARY 2009 NoPassport Conference podcast link for Svich interview

 

 

 

Firehouse Theatre Project’s Seventh Annual Festival of New American Plays Jan. 22-25
posted on January 5, 2009

Continuing its artistic mission of promoting new work in contemporary American theater, The Firehouse Theatre Project presents its Seventh Annual Festival of New American Plays, running from Thursday, January 22nd through Sunday, January 25th, 2009. The culmination of the Firehouse Theatre’s 2008 Playwriting Contest, the New Plays Festival celebrates and encourages new and emerging U.S. playwrights submitting as-yet unproduced scripts, and allows the Greater Richmond community to have a say in the Festival’s winner.

Two finalists culled from among nearly 200 scripts received from across the country were selected by a professional panel of judges. They are:
Evan Guilford-Blake from Atlanta, GA, for his script An Uncommon Language; and
Caridad Svich of New York City, for her script Magnificent Waste.

Both winners explore women artists - their lives, their work, and their darkest secrets.
Veteran actor/director Bill Patton will direct staged readings of both plays, to be presented on alternating nights during the New Plays Festival; and members of the public who see both plays are eligble to vote for the Festival winner.

Event Dates/Times:
An Uncommon Language: Thursday, January 22; and Saturday, January 24.
Magnificent Waste: Friday, January 23, and Sunday, January 25.

All events, 7:30 p.m. Doors open a half-hour before showtime.

Tickets: Suggested donation $5 each play at the door; volunteer script readers and students with valid ID get in free.

Location: Firehouse Theatre, 1609 W. Broad Street.

© 2001-08 Firehouse Theatre Project | 1609 West Broad Street | Richmond, Virginia 23220 | (804) 355-2001

http://www.firehousetheatre.org/events/item/new-plays-festival-magnificent-waste-by-caridad-svitch/

 

COMING in 2009

MOXIE Theatre and Ion Theatre will present

THE LABYRINTH OF DESIRE
by Caridad Svich,

freely adapted & translated from Lope de Vega's "La Prueba de los ingenios"

April 18-May 23, 2009

Directed by Delicia Turner-Sonnenberg

MOXIE Theatre is a professional non-profit theatre founded by the critically acclaimed group of performers and directors; Jo Anne Glover, Liv Kellgren, Delicia Turner Sonnenberg and Jennifer Eve Thorn.

MOXIE fans know that each distinct MOXIE production will always share one similar quality – moxie. Moxie is defined as “courage, pluck, gumption, perseverance, guts." It may be the hero of a play who embodies the term moxie, or a challenging subject matter. Perhaps a playwright has invented an original world for audiences to explore, or actors are asked to stretch to new heights and break new ground in story-telling. In whatever way it is revealed, moxie is the unifying quality that defines all of our productions.

MOXIE mailing address:
PO BOX 232737
Encinitas CA 92023

MOXIE hotline:
760-634-3965

Further details, including performance venue, will be available at

www.moxietheatre.com
www.iontheatre.com
 

premiere of
WRECKAGE
a play by Caridad Svich
directed by Erin Gilley
at Crowded Fire Theatre, San Francisco, CA
premiere: April 2009

 

Click HERE for more information

 

NO PASSPORT FEBRUARY 13-14, 2009


THE GRADUATE CENTER THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
NoPe - NoPassport Conference

DREAMING THE AMERICAS / LEGACY & R/EVOLUTION IN PERFORMANCE

NoPassport presents a two-day conference with the support of The Armenian Dramatic Arts Alliance, The Internationalists, The Polish Cultural Institute, Theatre Without Borders, and in collaboration with Frank Hentschker, Agata Grenda and the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center

Initiated by Caridad Svich

Co-curated by Randy Gener

Advisory Curator: Patricia Ybarra (Brown University)

Preliminary Itinerary click here


 

IN PRINT

 

APRIL 2009

 

"Of Both Worlds: Exploiting Rave Technologies in Caridad Svich's Iphigenia"

by Lance Gharavi

in Theatre Topics 18.2 (2008) 223-242.

http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/theatre_topics/v018/18.2.gharavi.html

 

MARCH 2009

REVOLUTION BOOKS

Thursday, March 26, 7pm
A discussion with women in theater: Alexis Greene interviews playwrights Kia Corthron, Migdalia Cruz and Caridad Svich. On the occasion of the 2nd International "Support Women Artists Now Day" (SWAN)

Kia Corthron's plays include Breath, Boom; Venus de Milo Is Armed; Light Raise the Roof; Life by Asphyxiation; Safe Box; Cage Rhythm; and Come Down Burning. Her work has been produced at the Manhattan Theatre Club, the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, and the Royal Court Theatre in London.

Migdalia Cruz has written over 35 plays, including Salt; FUR; Miriam's Flowers and Lucy Loves Me, the book and lyrics for Rushing Waters; Welcome Back To Salamanca and When Galaxy Six and The Bronx Collide; lyrics and monologues for Frida: The Story of Frida Kahlo. Her work has been produced at Playwrights Horizons, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York Shakespeare Festival's Festival Latino and around the world.

Caridad Svich is an award-winning US Latina playwright, songwriter/lyricist, translator and editor known for her critique of the American dream and media culture, her adaptations of ancient Greek texts, and free linguistic and visual mix of Latino and American cultures . She has written over forty full-length plays and fifteen translations as well as a number of other shorter works. Her key full-length plays include Any Place But Here, Alchemy of Desire/Dead-Man's Blues, Iphigenia...a rave fable, Fugitive Pieces, The Tropic of X, Lucinda Caval, Magnificent Waste, Prodigal Kiss, Thrush, Luna Park, and Twelve Ophelias.

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FEBRUARY 2009

 

Four New Play Anthologies from NoPassport Press Launched at "Dreaming the Americas" Conference

 

JANUARY 2009

 

Translation of Julio Cortazar's THE KINGS is published in the web-only feature InTranslation of

The Brooklyn Rail (December 2008) 

http://intranslation.brooklynrail.org/articles/1208_Cortazar_TheKings.html

 

 

The Looking Glass

a reflection on Tim Crouch's ENGLAND

by Caridad Svich

published in HotReview, edited by Jonathan Kalb

(January 2009)

 

http://www.hotreview.org/articles/thelookingglass.htm

 

NOVEMBER 2008

 

"Broken Music: Adam Bock"

An Interview by Caridad Svich

in Contemporary Theatre Review, Vol 18, No. 4, November 2008

pp 497-502. Publisher: Routledge

 

 

"Of Both Worlds: Exploiting Rave Technologies in Caridad Svich's Iphigenia"

by Lance Gharavi

in Theatre Topics 18.2 (2008) 223-242.

http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/theatre_topics/v018/18.2.gharavi.html

 

 

'Glamming it Up with Taylor Mac"
An Interview with Caridad Svich
in AMERICAN THEATRE (November 2008)
http://www.tcg.org/publications/at/nov08/taylormac.cfm

 

"Poland in Perspective: A Festival of Plays in New York"

by Caridad Svich

in The Brooklyn Rail

(November 2008)

http://www.brooklynrail.org/2008/11/theater/poland-in-perspective-a-festival-of-plays-in-new-york

 

Act Two* of

LULU ASCENDING by Caridad Svich

is now in print in Volume 3, Issue 1 (November 2008) of

Midway Journal

an online literary, mixed media, drama, poetry and mixed genre journal

 

drama editor: Justin Maxwell.

 

*Act One was published in the October 2008 issue.

 

Link below to November issue .

 

http://www.midwayjournal.com/Nov08_CurrentIssue.html

 

 

 

 

OCTOBER 2008

12 Ophelias
by Caridad Svich

New edition is now in print.
Below is amazon.com link

Click here: Amazon.com: 12 Ophelias (a play with broken songs): Caridad Svich: Books

LULU ASCENDING
a two-part play by Caridad Svich
inspired by Wedekind's Pandora's Box

is published in Midway Journal
part One in Vol. 2 Issue 6 (September 2008 and part Two in Vol. 2 Issue 7 (October 2008)

http://www.midwayjournal.com/Sept08_Drama.html

Getting Blasted: An Interview with Sarah Benson

by Caridad Svich

in The Brooklyn Rail

Issue: October 2008

 

http://www.brooklynrail.org/2008/10/theater/getting-blaster-sarah-benson-with-caridad-svich

"On a burning altar: Sarah Kane's Blasted"

by Caridad Svich

 

in www.hotreview.org (October 2008)

 

article link below:

http://www.hotreview.org/articles/onaburning.htm

 

JULY 2008

"Border Crossing: Interview with Javier Malpica"
by Caridad Svich
in American Theatre magazine
Volume. 25, No. 6 (July/August 2008)

"Life's Art"
an essay on writing by Caridad Svich
published in Brujula, Volume 6, Number 1 (December 2007)


MAY 2008

"Ordinary Sites of Transgression:
David Harrower's Blackbird"
by Caridad Svich
in PAJ 89
Volume 30, No. 2
May 2008