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THE LABYRINTH OF DESIRE. a comedy by Caridad Svich. In this breezy tale of romantic love, Florela loves Alejandro, but Alejandro is keen on Laura. Florela devises a plan to befriend Laura and in so doing becomes keen on her herself. But is Florela who she says she is? And will Laura see through Florela's disguise? A free adaptation and translation of Lope de Vega's "la prueba de los ingenios, " this play was originally commissioned by UCSD Dep...

THE VANISHED. a play by Caridad Svich. In a house near the sometime sea, a birthday party is being celebrated for the lost children of the earth. A story about finding communion in times of extinction. A rueful poetic drama.

JOAN OF THE DOCKYARDS. a play by Caridad Svich. A working-class, poetic drama that explores faith, longing, and climate change through the lens of a modern-day Joan and her family and friends in a small industrial town.

USHUAIA BLUE. a play by Caridad Svich. Jordan is a marine biologist. Sara works in bio-acoustics and film. They have been traveling to do research in Antarctica for some time now. On a recent trip, Sara connects with Pepa, who is native to Ushuaia, Argentina, at the southernmost tip of the world. This connection begins to affect how Sara sees the world and how she begins to hear the music of the ice. As Jordan and Sara's relationship as a coup...

THE BOOK OF MAGDALENE. a play by Caridad Svich. In the edge-lands, in weird times, it's nite-time until it's not. These nites: Magdalene misses Ru and who they could have been together, Magdalene cares for Elder, Magdalene visits the local church to look at the sky, Magdalene works the call lines of the lonely and encounters Suit. Call this a quest. Call this a life waiting to be born again, haunted by a past when another Magdalene lived and w...

TROUBLE IN KIND. A play by Caridad Svich. I'm A, I'm a Nother and I'm a Nother Other live in a small town on the edge of the bayou. In the aftermath of a hate crime, they all seek to re-make their lives. It's gonna take a ritual, a visiting deity and a ghostly encounter at the cross-roads to stir up the waters of progress once again. An incantation play for troubled times inflected with the timbre of tripped-out zydeco blues. This play is the ...

ALBEMARLE by Caridad Svich. Synopsis: I lives in Mine's house in a town in the edge-lands. I Misses You but won't tell anyone. It's Sunday. And last night was a drunken night. This night is going to be the same, but different, on account of a badger and a mysterious opera palace and some other things. How do we come of age when we come of age? How do we live in a movie when we're IRL? This play is a magic realist drama, which can be performe...

DESDEMONA'S CHILD (blood cry) a play by Caridad Svich. 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. A play inspired by and set in the wake of Shakespeare's ...

THE LITTLE HOURS and other plays. by Caridad Svich. THE LITTLE HOURS and other plays gathers ten short pieces by Caridad Svich written between 2020 and 2021. The works focus on themes of grief, loss, love, hope, intimacy, resilience, and human connection. The ten plays are The Little Hours, Baby Steps, Better Maybe, Blue, Lunch Break, aPeeling, A Prayer for these Days, The Sadness of Johnny Depp, 3 Days and Under the Moon. This is a Santa Cat...

THEATRE: A LOVE STORY by Caridad Svich. when there's little time left, what world can we create? What is our theatre? a play-conversation & installation about love, catastrophe, climate grief & other things. THEATRE: A LOVE STORY premiered with Know Theatre in Cincinnati, Ohio in a hybrid transmedia production in February 27=March 27, 2021 made in collaboration with Pones dance company. This edition is from Santa Catalina and NoPassport P...

LIFE JACKET. a play by Caridad Svich. Synopsis: This is a story about two friends on a boat. They live in a small town near the sea. On this Sunday, they go out, as they have done in the past, but this time, something changes. Call it a spirit encounter. Or maybe they just hit some nasty debris in the water. Whatever the case, it is a day that will test them both. This play is part of the author's seven-play AMERICAN PSALM cycle. This is a San...

THE LOVE OF THE GAME. a comedy, of sorts. by Caridad Svich. Synopsis: JB plays golf. They're good at it. It's summer and their old friend Shep comes to visit. Into the world of sports also walks in an upstart named Ren. Let's just say it's not going to be like any summer JB has gone through before. This is a Santa Catalina Editions and NoPassport Press edition.

ARBOR FALLS. a play by Caridad Svich. Synopsis: In a small town called Arbor Falls, a preacher wrestles with their faith as they try to hold onto the last vestiges of a church with barely a congregation to call its own. Into this town arrives a traveler whose presence exposes the spiritual and moral values upon which it stands. This play is part of the author's seven play cycle AMERICAN PSALM. This is a Santa Catalina Editions and NoPassport ...

HOLLER RIVER is a play by Caridad Svich. A soldier waits for another to come home. They were teacher and student once. A town waits, too, deep in the heart of coal country, while the one who roams wrestles with what home even means. A story about the stories we tell ourselves to survive, the songs we sing to get by, and the maps we make of our warring lives. This play is part of a seven-play cycle entitled American Psalm. This is a Santa Catal...

HURT SONG. A play by Caridad Svich. Synopsis: You pick through trash, you are trash, says someone. How do you find your worth in a land that tells you otherwise? This is the ballad of the hurting kind - those displaced from their homes, looking for work and sent to places in the middle of the country to make their way. Call this a story about climate refugees. Or we can just call this a fable for dark times. This publication is a Santa Catalin...

ABSENCE (El Ausente) by Victor Rascon Banda in translation 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.

FUEL. a play by Caridad Svich. You live in a place that reeks of gasoline. You run on fuel. You don't know anything else except living hard and surviving, but one day that fuel is gonna run out. How are you gonna know who you are, then? This is the story of Baby and their people living in a town left for dead. This is also the ballad of Baby and Girl. FUEL was developed at the Lark and Sheen Center, both in New York City, under the direction o...

DAY FOR NIGHT (fifteen tracks for disaster) by Caridad Svich. This is a vinyl recording for the page. Fifteen poetic tracks of hope, despair, longing, and prayer. The world of this piece by playwright-poet is both IRL and in the digital realm, cos most of us on the planet are cyborgs and have been for some time. This world, in part, is marked by climate grief, environmental racism, capitalism, post-human-ness, queerness, wildness, ritual, musi...

STAND by Caridad Svich. An acoustic electric poem-play of women's rage and ancient power. On this day, another woman from the village is raped. Their name is Cassandra. A chorus of women gather 'round in support of them and in defiance of the systems in which they are told they must live. A tale of protest and the ways in which all that are made vulnerable to patriarchal power may rise and move past collective trauma.This is a play-oratorio. I...

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