CARIDAD SVICH (1963 - )
| Nationality: | USA |
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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 | ||
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| Genre: | Play with songs | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
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 | ||||
Antigone Project, The |
| 1st Produced: | Womens Project Theater, NY | 2004 | ||
| Company: | Women's Project | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: By Tanya Barfield, Karen Hartman, Chiori Miyagawa, Lynn Nottage and Caridad Svich | ||||
Any Place But Here |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1996 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc | 2003 | ||
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| Genre: | Brutal Comedy | - | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Running time: 80-100 | ||||
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. | ||||
archaeology of dreams, The |
| 1st Produced: | Portland Stage Little Festival of the Unexpected, Portland, Maine | 2000 | ||
| Company: | Portland Stage | |||
| 1st Published: | Stage & Screen | 2003 | ||
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| Genre: | Comic fantasia | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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. | ||||
As five years pass |
| 1st Produced: | 1998 | |||
| Company: | INTAR | |||
| 1st Published: | Smith & Kraus | 2000 | ||
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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. | ||||
Begging the Eclipse |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2002 | ||
| Company: | Cutting Ball Theatre | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: - | ||||
Booth Variations, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||
| Company: | The Moonshine Project at 59 East 59 | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| 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. | ||||
But there are fires |
| 1st Produced: | The Women's Project, New York City | 1991 | ||
| Company: | The Women's Project | |||
| 1st Published: | Smith & Kraus | 2002 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
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. | ||||
Dona Rosita or the language of flowers |
| 1st Produced: | Caffeine Theatre, Chicago, IL | 2005 | ||
| Company: | Caffeine Theatre | |||
| 1st Published: | NoPassport Press | 2007 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| 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. | ||||
Fugitive Pieces |
| 1st Produced: | Kitchen Dog Theater, Dallas, TX | 2000 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc | 2005 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Play with Songs | Play with Music | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | 4-9 actors possible | |||
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. | ||||
Genuine Bonafide Article |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2005 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: A family tries to keep together in the time of war. | ||||
Gleaning/rebusca |
| 1st Produced: | Beyond Baroque, Los Angeles | 1991 | ||
| Company: | Beyond Baroque | |||
| 1st Published: | Arte Publico Press | 1992 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| 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. | ||||
house of bernarda alba |
| 1st Produced: | Pearl Theatre, New York City | 2005 | ||
| Company: | Pearl Theatre | |||
| 1st Published: | NoPassport Press | 2007 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| 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. | ||||
Huddersfield |
| 1st Produced: | TUTA Theatre, Chicago, IL | 2006 | ||
| Company: | TUTA Theatre | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| 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. | ||||
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 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| 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. | ||||
Labyrinth Of Desire, The |
| 1st Produced: | Miracle Theatre in Portland, Oregon | 2008 | ||
| Company: | Miracle Theatre | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| 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. | ||||
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 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| 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. | ||||
Lulu Ascending |
| 1st Produced: | reading at 440 Studios, NY | 2007 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: - | ||||
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: | Playscrips, Inc - 830 | 2006 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | Comedy/Drama | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: One of the male roles could also be doubled and thus the piece could be performed with six actors total. | ||||
Synopsis: In the dog days of summer, seven twentysomethings spend a semi-enchated day in a grand park by the sea, where old music and new love collide. It is the perfect day until public tragedy affects them all. A comic drama about friendship, love, loss and bombs scored to songs by the Smiths. | ||||
Magnificent Waste |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2003 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | chorus | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: Three people want to be famous and are followed everywhere by camera crews. | ||||
Prodigal's Kiss |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1999 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| 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 | ||||
Public, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | 2006 | ||
| Company: | Cutting Ball Theater | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Original Playwright - Federico Garcia Lorca | ||||
Synopsis: - | ||||
Thrush (a play with songs) |
| 1st Produced: | Salvage Vanguard Theatre, Austin, Texas | 2006 | ||
| Company: | Salvage Vanguard Theatre | |||
| 1st Published: | Salvage Vanguard Press | 2006 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| 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. | ||||
tropic of x, The |
| 1st Produced: | Artheater Cologne, Germany | 2007 | ||
| Company: | Artheater-Cologne co-produced by Immigrants Theater Company, New York | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| 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. | ||||
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: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| 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. | ||||
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 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | 5 choral roles | |||
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. | ||||