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CARIDAD SVICH (1963 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Elaine Devlin Literary, Inc. |
Caridad Svich is a US Latina playwright, translator, lyricist and editor whose works have been presented across the US and abroad at diverse venues including Repertorio Espanol, The Women's Project, INTAR, 59East59, Cincinnati Playhouse, McCarren Park Pool, 7 Stages, Salvage Vanguard Theatre, ARTheater-Cologne, and Edinburgh Fringe Festival/UK. The summer 2009 issue of American Theatre magazine featured a significant profile about her work, and she is the recipient of the 2009 Lee Reynolds Award from the League of Professional Theatre Women. Among her key plays: 12 Ophelias, Any Place But Here, Alchemy of Desire/Dead-Man's Blues, Fugitive Pieces, Iphigenia. . .a rave fable, Instructions for Breathing, The Booth Variations, and The House of the Spirits (based on the novel by Isabel Allende).. She has translated nearly all of Federico Garcia Lorca's plays as well as works by Lope de Vega, Calderon de la Barca, Julio Cortazar and new plays from Spain, Cuba and Mexico and has freely adapted works by Wedekind, Sophocles, Euripides and Shakespeare. She's a former Harvard/Radcliffe Institute Bunting Fellow and has received grants from the NEA, TCG, Pew Charitable Trusts and California Arts Council. She has edited several books on theatre and performance including Trans-Global Readings:Crossing Theatrical Boundaries (Manchester University Press) and Divine Fire (BackStage Books). Her work is published by TCG, Smith & Kraus, Playscripts and more. She is alumna playwright of New Dramatists, founder of theatre alliance & press NoPassport, associate editor of Routledge's Contemporary Theatre Review and contributing editor of TheatreForum. She is member of PEN American Center, The Dramatists Guild and is featured in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Latino History. She holds an MFA from UCSD. Website: www.caridadsvich.com
Plays by Caridad Svich
Alchemy of Desire/Dead-Man's Blues | ||
| 1st Produced: | Cincinnati Playhouse, Cincinnati, Ohio | 1994 | ||||
Company: | Cincinnati Playhouse | |||||
| 1st Published: | Theatre Communications Group, 2000 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #74438 | |||
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Genre: | Play with songs | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 5 | ||
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Synopsis: | A play with original songs set in a primeval landscape of swamp and burnt-out woods. The death of a young soldier (killed in a recent war) sends his widow, and a community of women left behind, on a journey where the soldier's ghost, fried chicken, and other mysteries of spirit and nature come together in a search for pure grace. "It is a rich and provocative piece of theater that deserves to be seen elsewhere." Variety | |||||
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Antigone Project, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Women's Project Theater, NY | 2004 | ||||
Company: | Women's Project | |||||
| 1st Published: | No Passport Press, CA (2009) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #83510 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | By Tanya Barfield, Karen Hartman, Chiori Miyagawa, Lynn Nottage and Caridad Svich | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Any Place But Here | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1996 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33744 | |||
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Genre: | 80-100 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 2 males, 2 females | |||||
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Synopsis: | Tommy hates his job as a bartender, but also loathes coming home. His wife Veronica is pregnant with another man's child, and can only confide in Lydia, her friend at the textile factory. Lydia's husband Chucky has lost his job, and is in no hurry to find a new one. In this savagely comic drama, set in an American landscape of economic desolation, the two troubled couples struggle to find meaning, hope, and connection, in a world bereft of all these things. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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archaeology of dreams, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Portland Stage Little Festival of the Unexpected, Portland, Maine | 2000 | ||||
Company: | Portland Stage | |||||
| 1st Published: | Stage & Screen, 2003 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #84856 | |||
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Genre: | Comic fantasia | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A seriocomic, kaleidoscopic exploration of the intersection between origin, history, and memory as a child is born in the U.S. in the year 1963. A President is about to be assassinated, a country singer dies, a senator falls from grace, and two surfers look for bliss in the imagined Scottish skies. | |||||
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As five years pass | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||||
Company: | INTAR | |||||
| 1st Published: | Smith & Kraus, 2000 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #84861 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Federico Garcia Lorca | |||||
Synopsis: | A new translation of Garcia Lorca's full-length "impossible theater" piece about lost love, time and youth. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Begging the Eclipse | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2002 | ||||
Company: | Cutting Ball Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #76069 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Blood Wedding | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Lorca: Six Major Plays, NoPassport Press, CA | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-578-00221-7 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #99412 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Federico Garcia Lorca | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Booth Variations, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
Company: | The Moonshine Project at 59 East 59 | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #60234 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 2 additional choral roles may be played live | |||||
Notes: | This piece was conceived and created by Todd Cerveris, Nick Philippou and Caridad Svich; text was written by Todd Cerveris and Caridad Svich | |||||
Synopsis: | A multimedia historical fantasia about the legendary 19th century acting family the Booths (Junius, Edwin and John Wilkes) framed through the Civil War, the Lincoln assassination, Matthew Brady's photography and contemporary celebrity culture. | |||||
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But there are fires | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Women's Project, New York City | 1991 | ||||
Company: | The Women's Project | |||||
| 1st Published: | Smith & Kraus, 2002 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #84860 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A look at a blue-collar romantic triangle, the thwarted communication amongst three people, and the possibility for a marriage to be healed. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Dona Rosita or the language of flowers | ||
| 1st Produced: | Caffeine Theatre, Chicago, IL | 2005 | ||||
Company: | Caffeine Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | NoPassport Press, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #84859 | |||
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Genre: | Comic drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 9 | ||
Parts other: | Two choral roles additional are optional | |||||
Notes: | author: Federico Garcia Lorca | |||||
Synopsis: | A new translation/adaptation of Garcia Lorca's "poem of 1900 Granada": a whimsical elegy to lost love and fleeting time, and a heart-rending critique of a faded world. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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En el tiempo de las Mariposas/In the Time of the butterflies | ||
| 1st Produced: | Repertorio Espanol | 21 Feb 2011 | ||||
Company: | Repertorio Espanol | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #124714 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 7 | ||
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Synopsis: | In The Time of the Butterflies is the story of the courageous Mirabal sisters (Patria, Minerva y Maria Teresa) from the Dominican Republic. The sisters inspired resistance cells throughout the country against the dictatorial regime of Gen. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. The "butterflies," their secret code name, were brutally murdered by the regime in 1960. Based on Julia alvarez's popular novel of the same name. Performances are in Spanish, with English translation available. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Fugitive Pieces | ||
| 1st Produced: | Kitchen Dog Theater (Dallas, TX, United States) | 2000 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #33745 | |||
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Genre: | 85-95 min Drama with songs | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 2 males, 2 females (4-9 actors possible: 2-7 males, exactly 2 females) | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A play with original songs that charts the violent journey of two vagrants, as they make their way through the rural and industrial wastelands of the United States. An accumulation of simultaneous glimpses as these troubled souls grasp for the coordinates of what was once a sensible world. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Genuine Bonafide Article | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2005 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #74439 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A family tries to keep together in the time of war. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Gleaning/rebusca | ||
| 1st Produced: | Beyond Baroque, Los Angeles | 1991 | ||||
Company: | Beyond Baroque | |||||
| 1st Published: | Arte Publico Press, 1992 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #84857 | |||
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Genre: | Comic drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Through the relationship between two Cuban-American women, this seriocomic play explores the bonds of friendship and the forces at work on women who live on the cusp between old world values and new world freedom. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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house of bernarda alba | ||
| 1st Produced: | Pearl Theatre, New York City | 2005 | ||||
Company: | Pearl Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | NoPassport Press, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #84867 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 12 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Federico Garcia Lorca | |||||
Synopsis: | When widowed Bernarda Alba locks her daughters for eight yers of mourning, she slams the door in the face of their hopes and passions. With their freedom denied, suspicions, and jealousies mount until the women's volatile emotions threaten Bernarda's control over her household. This is a new translation of Garcia Lorca's modern classic. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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House of the Spirits, The / La Casa de los Espiritus | ||
| 1st Produced: | Repertorio Espanol | 2009 | ||||
Company: | Repertorio Espanol/Spanish Repertory | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #93691 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Drama [based on the novel by Isabel Allende]. This piece was commissioned by Repertorio Espanol, and is available in both Spanish-language and English-language versions by Caridad Svich. | |||||
Synopsis: | Isabel Allende's landmark first novel The House of the Spirits (published in 1982) comes to the stage in a stirring premiere adaptation by acclaimed US Latina dramatist and lyricist Caridad Svich. Focusing on three generation of women, this new play intersects in an imaginative, musical, poetic manner with the structure, themes and central characters of Allende's dynamic contemporary classic. Charting the rise and fall of a family in an un-named Latin America country (reminiscent of Chile), the piece spans the 1920s through the 1970s, as the country moves through enormous sociopolitical changes that culminate in a devastating dictatorship. The play is told from the sensorial point of view of the youngest of the generation of women, Alba, who is held as the play opens, in a torture room by the government. The swirling memories, frightening and amusing, lyrical and fantastic, illuminate the stage as Alba records her family's history and ultimately finds the strength to recover her own story. | |||||
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Huddersfield | ||
| 1st Produced: | TUTA Theatre, Chicago, IL | 2006 | ||||
Company: | TUTA Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #84866 | |||
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Genre: | Comic drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Uglijesa Sajinac | |||||
Synopsis: | A bleakly comic drama about a generation of Serbian men caught between the fall of Communism and the rise of a new Europe. A long night's drunken journey of the soul as old friends find out what unites them and what has exiled them forever from an image of the past. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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In the Time of the Butterflies | ||
| 1st Produced: | Repertorio Espanol | 11 Feb 2011 | ||||
Company: | Spanish Repertory Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #126384 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Based on Julia alvarez's popular novel, "In The Time of the Butterflies," is a fictionalized account of the story of the courageous Mirabal sisters from the Dominican Republic. The sisters inspired resistance cells throughout the country against the dictatorial regime of Gen. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. The 'butterflies', their secret code name, were brutally murdered by the regime in 1960. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Instructions for Breathing | ||
| 1st Produced: | Mill Hill Playhouse, Trenton, NJ | 2009 | ||||
Company: | Passage Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #96774 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 1 Voiceover role (child) | |||||
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Synopsis: | Hit the party. Impress the boss. Steal a kiss. Get home late. . . 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. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Iphigenia crash land falls on the neon shell that was once her heart (a rave fable) | ||
| 1st Produced: | 7 Stages, Atlanta | 2004 | ||||
Company: | 7 stages | |||||
| 1st Published: | TheatreForum Issue No 25, 2004 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #56570 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | The play may also be cast with six actors, if one of the lead male roles (Achilles) is not double-cast. | |||||
Synopsis: | This hallucinatory drama hurls one of the most compelling sagas in Greek tragedy into a sexy, sleek netherworld of sex, drugs and trance music. Iphigenia here becomes the daughter of a political celebrity who embraces sensuous excess with a Ziggy Stardust-Trent reznor-style rock star named Achilles in a desperate attempt to flee her inevitable fate. | |||||
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Labyrinth Of Desire, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Miracle Theatre in Portland, Oregon | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Miracle Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #84755 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Lope de Vega. Freely adapted and translated from La Prueba de los ingenios | |||||
Synopsis: | When Florela's fiance decides to leave her and compete with other suitors for the hand of the rich and beautiful Laura, Florela goes undercover to keep her man. Filled with clever deceptions and disguises, this who's who comedy of romantic intrigue explores the delightful and essential mystery of love's ambiguities. This stylish and contemporary adaptation proves that long before Sex and the City, intuition and infatuation have challenged the boundaries and fluidity of human desire. | |||||
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Little Betrayal Amoung Friends, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Greenhouse Theater Center, Chicago | 11 Jun 2011 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #128900 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Based on a 17th Century play by Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Love of don perlimplin for belisa in the garden | ||
| 1st Produced: | University of California-San Diego Department of Theatre and Dance, La Jolla, CA | 1988 | ||||
Company: | University of California-San Diego Department of Theatre and Dance | |||||
| 1st Published: | Smith & Kraus, 2000 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #84862 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Federico Garcia Lorca | |||||
Synopsis: | A new translation of Garcia Lorca's whimsical, melancholic comedy about love, desire, disguise, and transformation. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Lulu Ascending | ||
| 1st Produced: | reading at 440 Studios, NY | 2007 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #59692 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Luna Park | ||
| 1st Produced: | International High School of the French-American International School, San Francisco, CA | 2005 | ||||
Company: | International High School of the French-American International School (Lycee Francais) | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #61288 | |||
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Genre: | 110 min Comedy/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | 4 males, 3 females (6-7 actors possible: 3-4 males, exactly 3 females) | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | In the dog days of summer, seven twentysomethings spend a semi-enchanted day in a grand park by the sea, where old music and new love collide. It is a perfect day until public tragedy affects them all. A comic drama about friendship, love, loss, and bombs. | |||||
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Magnificent Waste | ||
| 1st Produced: | Mead Theatre Lab, Flashpoint Arts Center, Washington D.C. | 09 Apr 2011 | ||||
Company: | Factory 449: a theatre collective | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #74440 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | Various VO roles (prerecorded) | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Lizzie B makes shock art. Arden buys beautiful things. A young man wants to be famous. In a modern world addicted to sex, drugs, fashion and celebrity, three friends make a pact that will change their lives. Caridad Svich's MAGNIFICENT WASTE explores America's appetite for excess and presents an unsettling portrait of its own undoing; a glittering but brutal exploration of modern society's superficiality and the objectification of the human body. | |||||
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Prodigal's Kiss | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1999 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #74441 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A young Cuban woman travels from Florida to the hidden parts of the United States | |||||
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Public, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Cutting Ball Theater | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Lorca: Six Major Plays, NoPassport Press, CA | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-578-00221-7 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #82621 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Federico Garcia Lorca | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Rift | ||
| 1st Produced: | Shubert Theatre,Tisch School of the Arts, NY, NY | 02 Dec 2009 | ||||
Company: | New York University | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #107258 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | RIFT is an epic story about human sex trafficking and globalisation, about lives torn by war and its aftermath, by abuse and damage, profit and trade, and the intimate search for beauty and grace. Gender, border, and culturally crossed, RIFT explores the fate of the human animal in a dislocated world and asks the question: how can a body that is torn find a way to heal itself and transform, and thus resist the tyranny of power? A violent, erotic, dream-like fable. [This play was commissioned by Mark Wing-Davey, Chair and the NYU's Graduate Acting Program.] | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Lorca: Six Major Plays, NoPassport Press, CA | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-578-00221-7 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #99413 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Federico Garcia Lorca | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Thrush (a play with songs) | ||
| 1st Produced: | Salvage Vanguard Theatre, Austin, Texas | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Salvage Vanguard Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Salvage Vanguard Press, 2006 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #84864 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 2 choral roles, which could also be expanded to larger chorus | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A stark drama with songs about war, displacement, and its aftermath. Set in an unnamed country, this play presents a love story of violence, sorrow and forgiveness in a ravaged landscape. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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tropic of x, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Artheater Cologne, Germany | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Artheater-Cologne co-produced by Immigrants Theater Company, New York | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #84863 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 1 m/f | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | In a collapsing island in the Americas, two street kids pledge their love to each other against insurmountable odds. As the island's political regime changes and liberties are constrained, the street kids find themselves thrust into an epic battle to sustain their dignities. A hip-hop influenced poetic drama about post-post colonial sex tourism, trade and censorship. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Turn the dark up, bow down, this is a hymn | ||
| 1st Produced: | HERE Arts Center American Living Room festival, New York City | 2001 | ||||
Company: | HERE Arts Center | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #84858 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | At the end of a party, a woman and two men offer themselves up for destruction. Who is left standing in this magical world is up to a can of Red Bull and the shared memory of a midnight kiss. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Twelve Ophelias (a play with broken songs) | ||
| 1st Produced: | Baruch Performing Arts Center, New York City | 2004 | ||||
Company: | Woodshed Collective, New York City | |||||
| 1st Published: | Call: Review Issue No. 2, 2004 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-578-00221-7 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #84865 | |||
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Genre: | Poetic drama with music | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | Chorus (3-6 male or female) | |||||
Notes: | This piece was first presented at Baruch Performing Arts Center, New York City in 2004 with music by Carida Svich, Michael Ray Escamilla, and Michael Gladis, and received its professional premiere by Woodshed Collective, New York City in 2008. It is also published by Kendall-Hunt in the anthology Performing the Here and Now, and in a single edition by NoPassport Press. | |||||
Synopsis: | Shakespeare's Ophelia rises up out of the water dreaming of sweet things. She finds herself in a neo-Elizabethan Appalachian setting where Gertrude runs a brothel, Hamlet is called a Rude Boy, and nothing is what it seems. In this mirrored world of word-scraps and cold sex, Ophelia cuts a new path for herself. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Wreckage | ||
| 1st Produced: | Crowded Fire Theatre at the Boxcar Playhouse, San Francisco | 2009 | ||||
Company: | Crowded Fire Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #99408 | |||
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Genre: | Poetic drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | originally was written while in residence at the Inge Center for the Arts in Kansas, and developed at New Dramatists in New York City in a reading under the direction of Annie Dorsen, and in a PlayTime Studio Retreat workshop directed by Stefan Novinski; subsequently developed at the Hartt School New Play Festival in Connecticut and at Highwire Theatre Testing the Line Reading Series in New York City. This play is inspired in part by Jeff Buckley's cover version of Hank Williams' "Lost Highway." | |||||
Synopsis: | Two boys emerge from the sea and become engulfed in a world of savage longing. In this landscape of blurred roles, a mother may be a lover, a boy may be a girl, and power and sex are one. Riffing freely on the story of Medea, Wreckage weaves together moments of disconcerting beauty and pain as the boys search for a home amidst a culture of brutality. | |||||
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Yerma | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Lorca: Six Major Plays, NoPassport Press, CA | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-578-00221-7 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #99414 | |||
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Genre: | Translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Original Playwright - Federico Garcia Lorca | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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