Day for Night with Caridad Svich

In this episode, I read a section from work in progress BAD ENGLISH. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

In this episode I read the opening scene from Sam Shepard's play THE UNSEEN HAND (1971). The version I read from is published by Alexander Street Press in their 20th Century American Drama collection. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

opening and chapter one from Dan O'Brien's memoir FROM SCARSDALE published by Dalkey Archive Press, 2023. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

episode in which I read A.V. Marraccini's HEPHAESTUS CONTRA THE IT GIRL: A Manifesto. Marraccini's piece was originally published on April 19, 2024 on Medium. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

an interview with Caridad Svich conducted by Conrad Alexandrowicz and David Fancy from their book THEATRE PEDAGOGY IN THE ERA OF CLIMATE CRISIS. Published by Routledge (2021). --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

in this episode I read my essay "The Five Elements" from the book LATINX ACTOR TRAINING edited by Cynthia Santos DeCure and Micha Espinosa. Published by Routledge (2023). --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

In this episode I read my essay "In a Shakespearean key" from the book SHAKESPEARE AND LATINIDAD edited by Trevor Boffone and Carla Della Gatta (Edinburgh University Press, 2021). --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

On the day of the announcement of his passing, I read Edward Bond's introduction to the book FIFTY PLAYWRIGHTS ON THEIR CRAFT, which Caroline Jester and I wrote. Published by Methuen Drama in 2018. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

On poet Lynn Hejinian's passing, I read excerpt from their 1983 essay "The Rejection of Closure" and excerpt from their book My Life (published by Wesleyan University Press). A consideration of form, time, consciousness, its mapping and some words too on capitalism, product and art. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

in this episode, I read from a 2002 work in progress by poet/playwright Mac Wellman. The piece is titled "On Negligible Perfection." It was published in TheatreForum international theatre journal Issue 20 Winter/Spring 2002. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

excerpt from work-in-progress BAD ENGLISH by Caridad Svich --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

S4, Ep 1: excerpt from the radio drama A HISTORY OF PAPER (2016) by Oliver Emanuel. In memory of Emanuel's passing in December 2023. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

S3, Ep 39: reading from work in progress by Caridad Svich. It is untitled but told through a mythic lens of Minotaur, or so we think? And also reading from excerpt of short story "Taxi Driver" by Tim Etchells from his collection ENDLAND (And Stories Press, 2019). --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

Episode 38: excerpt from the play THE NICEST BODY EVER SEEN AROUND THESE PARTS by Josep Maria Miro, translated by Sharon Feldman, read by Caridad Svich. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

In this episode, Caridad Svich reads their performance text AN ACORN (version 2020, from 2017-2018). The piece is published by NoPassport Press, and is part of the trilogy that includes the pieces TOWN HALL and THEATRE: A LOVE STORY. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

in this episode I read a section from my play MEMORIES OF OVERDEVELOPMENT and the opening of a new work in progress currently titled SWANS --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

S3, Ep 35: 2nd excerpt - the Coral scene - from PRODIGAL KISS by Caridad Svich. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

In this episode, I read from and talk about my play PRODIGAL KISS, and the heartbreak of theatre. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

essay from early 2000s "Embracing the Fragile" by Caridad Svich. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

cw: the excerpt contains difficult subject matter. * S3, Ep 32: excerpt from the opening of Christopher Brett Bailey's performance piece THIS IS HOW WE DIE published by Oberon Books in 2014. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support