Caridad Svich
@csvich
Writer for Performance. 2024 Guggenheim Fellow. Plays: Red Bike, 12 Ophelias, Iphigenia Crash Land Falls.... Film: Fugitive Dreams. Artistic Director of New Play Development at Lortel Theater/NY. Editor at Contemporary Theatre Review/UK. Views mine.
thanks to Annie, Alyssa, Vivia, Daphne, and Marcel for first read of LAS CHICAS HOLIDAY today. maybe one day we do it for real. if the theatre gids say yes. before the end of the world. one can dream.
in virtual lobby for livestream dance from Jacobs Pillow: Brian Brooks Moving Company
here in virtual lobby for dance film created by 20 people living with ME/CFS, Long Covid and other disabilities. the dance film at the center of last week's online discourse. to see what these artists made.
"who gets to say they are apart from interconnectedness and necessary interdependence? how many Oxbridge degrees remove one from being with and of the people? who gets to run the show and run roughshod over people's lives?" -- Caridad Svich
"Theatrical chatter has it that if only the leaders in power change, things will be righted. But every leader, despite small inroads made toward change, ends up upholding a system that despises evolutionary progress. What is that phrase? Its baked into the system? And so it is." -- Caridad Svich
here in on demand theatre: LONDON ROAD. on NT at Home. @nationaltheatre.org.uk
here in on demand theatre: Peter Shaffer's BLACK COMEDY. streaming till July 17 from @orangetreetheatre.bsky.social
"what does an industry mean when it says a play does nothing? who determines what the nothing means or is? isnt a play always doing? being? what about its doing and being needs to be utilitarian or else?"
here in on demand new theatre from Pig Iron in Philadelphia: FRANKLIN'S KEY. stage illusions galore. streaming till July 19.
here in on demand dance: Marco de Silva Ferreira's F*cking Futures. from Lyon. 2025. on Arte.
here in new on demand theatre on vimeo from distance over time: THE LUMINOUS DEAD. adapted and directed by Andrew J. Hungerford. filmed live at Voxel Theatre. $10 rental. gorgeous show. @luxtheatrum.bsky.social
in live stream lobby at Arte TV from Festival d' Aix en Provence: DIE FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN opera dir. Barrie Kosky.
here in new play on demand: Amy Berryman's THE TREATMENT. from The Playwrights Center.
here in livestream dance lobby at Jacob's Pillow: Urban Bush Women's SCAT!
here in livestream dance performance of The School at Jacob's Pillow Contemporary Ballet Ensemble on the outdoor stage.
here in livestream lobby for new dance from Jacob's Pillow: Shamel Pitts/TRIBE: "Touch of Red"
here in live stream from Athens, Greece of AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE. starring Willem Dafoe. free on youtube from Theater of War Productions.
thinking abt my book TOWARD A FUTURE THEATRE today @methuendrama.bsky.social bc i still want to believe there is a present and future worth fighting for.
here in on demand theatre/film: SUPPLIANTS OF SYRIA. streaming till June 21 on youtube. from Border Crossings1.
from pocket theatre: "i can't spend my entire life trying to impress people i don't even know in order for them to consider me fit for investment" -- Caridad Svich
here in on demand new play: The Merry Wives of Fogo Island by francisca da silveira. from The Playwrights Center.
one week till free on demand stream of WAR PAINTING starring Gregg Mozgala, Alfredo Narciso and Scott Shepherd. directed by Jackson Gay. from the digital stage of the @lorteltheatre.bsky.social
here in on demand new theatre: MAN AND BOY on NT at Home. @nationaltheatre.org.uk
here in on demand new theatre: N/A by Mario Correa. at Lincoln Center. Theatre Close-Up on WNET NYC. online.