Books by Caridad Svich

RED BIKE by Caridad Svich. A play about being a chid, growing up, living in small town America and figuring out where you stand in a divided country. A fable of dreams and possibility for our times. RED BIKE is an NNPN rolling world premiere. This publication is for Santa Catalina Editions and NoPassport Press.

AUTOPSY OF A SNOWFLAKE. (Autopsia de un copo de nieve)by Luis Santillán. Translated by Caridad Svich. In this play, a mother and her two daughters play out a darkly comic and tragic cycle of co-dependency that leads to an increasingly isolated interior landscape for each of them that spirals beyond their control. A story about the void at the heart of upper middle-class life and the patriarchal structures that contain women. This translation/adaptation was commissioned and developed at The Lark, New York City, as part of the 2019 US/Mexico Playwright Exchange Program, where it received a rehearsed reading under the direction of Adrian Alexander Alea. This publication is a collaboration between The Lark and NoPassport Press.

THIS THING OF OURS by Caridad Svich. A text for live performance. In THIS THING OF OURS, an act of violence struck our city. This has happened before. We say we will put our lives back together. Years will go by. We will grow apart, come together, have children, and some of us, will wonder how to keep going, as we turn to myths and seek lessons there. In our theaters of memory, in our songs of transcendence, perhaps we will find peace. THIS THING OF OURS was first seen at Repertory Theatre of St. Louis' Ignite Festival of New Work.

STAGES OF RESISTANCE: THEATRE AND POLITICS IN THE CAPITALOCENE edited by Caridad Svich with Olivia George. A collection of essays, interviews & reflections on the multiple meanings of political theatre, and the ways in which progressive, wholistic cultural change may be instigated through artworks. Contributors include Rachel Mars and Roberta Mock, Maddy Costa, Andy Smith, Mary Kathryn Nagle, Yvette Nolan, Leila Buck, Dipika Guha, Zakiyyah Alexander, Andy Field and more. This publication is a collaboration between The Lark and NoPassport Press.

AGUA DE LUNA (PSALMS FOR THE ROUGE) is a new play by Caridad Svich that traces the personal lives of three couples living in southwest Detroit. Written in close-ups snapshots of ache, hunger, passion and hope, the play speaks to the search for a bit of magic in the everyday. This play premiered at Matrix Theatre Company in Detroit, which commissioned the piece. This is a Santa Catalina Editions publication.

JARMAN (all this maddening beauty) by Caridad Svich. This text for live performance by OBIE winning playwright Caridad Svich is inspired by the life and works of British filmmaker Derek Jarman (1942-1994). An homage and reflection on the legacy of queer art, this piece tells the story of a beautiful boy and queer angel in the now looking back at then. A dazzling poetic rendering, JARMAN explores the limits of the possible for both stage and film. First produced by force/collision ensemble in Washington D.C., the piece toured limited venues in the US and UK in 2014 and 2015. Published in a collection by the author from Intellect Books in the UK in 2016, this is a new single edition of the performance text from Santa Catalina Editions and NoPassport.

WHEN I WAS BOTH by Caridad Svich. Jenna loses her job at university after 20-odd years in the field. This action, out of her control, sends her on a journey, where she will discover more about herself than she might have ever known. As her circle of friends tries to support and challenge her, Jenna finds a new path - one that becomes an investigation into memory and being - a map of the self. A play about Western society's "invisible women" living within the structures of late capitalism.

Caridad Svich examines the exhilarating Hedwig and the Angry Inch through the lenses of visual and vocal rock `n¿ roll performance, the history of the American musical, and its positioning within LGBTIQ-plus theatre.

This book presents four plays by Caridad Svich that explore the rough waters of citizenship under the pressure of globalization and the threads of human connection across multiple geographic landscapes. Featuring essays by practitioners such as Zac Kline, this book refuses to pretend that the complex questions of existence are easily settled.

EARLY PLAYS: VOLUME ONE: four early works from playwright-poet Caridad Svich that offer tantalizing glimpses into the seeds of her future writing. This collection contains two solo performance texts SCAR and TORCH, and two chamber plays NIGHTWOOD and CARNIVAL. Caridad Svich is a playwright, translator, lyricist and editor. She received the 2012 OBIE for Lifetime Achievement and has written over 40 plays, 30 translations and has edited several books on theatre and performance.

THE SPANISH GOLDEN AGE PLAYS collects three playful, spirited, go-for-broke adaptation/translations by US Latina dramatist Caridad Svich of comedies by Maria Zayas de Sotomayor, Lope de Vega, and Calderon de la Barca. These three plays - A LITTLE BETRAYAL AMONG FRIENDS, THE LABYRINTH OF DESIRE and THE MONSTER IN THE GARDEN - play fast and loose with issues of gender, sexuality, and identity and shed new light on works from Spain''s golden age of drama.

The three plays by OBIE-winning playwright Caridad Svich examine varying aspects of art and decadence through the lens of contemporary visual art, photography, painting, and fashion. MAGNIFICENT WASTE (2012 finalist for PEN Center USA Literary Award in Drama), LULU ASCENDING (a play on Wedekind's Lulu plays) and TILT HEAVEN are acid-dipped views of celebrity culture and consumerism, suffused with a hard ache for the lost souls that inhabit their distinct harsh-lit, emptied worlds of sadness.

24 GUN CONTROL PLAYS brings together new work in support of gun control from playwrights Neil LaBute, Elaine Avila, Kyle Bostian, Neil Blackadder, Alex Broun, Gab Cody, Tameka Cage Conley, Cecilia Copeland, Yvette Heyliger, Amina Henry, Zac Kline, Jennifer Maisel, Lynn Manning, Oliver Mayer, Chiori Miyagawa, Matthew Paul Olmos, Ian Rowlands, Tammy Ryan, August Schulenburg, Saviana Stanescu, Caridad Svich, Chris Weikel, Winter Miller, Gary Winter, and Laura Zam. The volume features an essay by Tammy Ryan and a reflection and interview by DW Gregory. Selected works in this volume were presented in collaboration with NoPassport, Theater J and force/collision in Washington D.C. on January 26, 2013, and with Pittsburgh PACT to coincide with the March on Washington for Gun Control led by Molly Smith and Suzanne Blue Star Boy. These dynamic works for theatre are a rousing call to action.