Day for Night with Caridad Svich

in this episode i return to the podcast with a reading of one of my short pieces aPeeling. first seen in the Something Other blog.

in this episode I read and reflect upon Nate Holdren's blog piece "A letter on epistemological breaks, morality, and the current conjuncture" originally written/posted on October 18, 2025 as an open source essay.

an excerpt from a new play of mine called WAR PAINTING.

an essay about what the hug can mean in theatre.

an essay about when a scene in a play is labelled as a "money" scene.

an essay about what it is like for a writer to be cast off to the wilderness.

an essay about what happens when theatre self censors.

an essay on theatre's relationship to capitalism.

an essay about storytelling and what the campfire metaphor even means.

in this episode i read from my essay "language games" where i talk about writing in Spanish and bilingually in an Anglophone theatre.

in this episode i read an essay i wrote about theatre, class system and who gets kept in and who gets kept out: "Three card monte or the theatre shell game"

in this episode, i read the first essay from my substack called pocket theatre or slow news from old wars: "I Miss When Plays were just plays."

in this episode I read from poet Andrea Gibson's work in honor of their memory. the poems are from their collection YOU BETTER BE LIGHTNING (Button Poetry, 2021), as follows: "Acceptance Speech After Setting the World Record In Goosebumps" "The Year of No Grudges, Or Instead of Writing a Furious Text, I try a Poem" "The Museum of Broken Relationships" "Time P...

in this episode I read Dan O'Brien's pamphlet 40 QUESTONS FOR A POLITICAL PLAY. published by Calque Pamphlets. Calquepress. (2025)

in this episode I read and reflect upon Sara Ahmed's "A Useful Manifesto" (published July 11, 2025 on their substack feministkilljoys).

in this episode I read the second half of Tobi Haslett's essay "Magic Actions" (summer 2021, nplusone.mag/issue-40

in this episode I read the first half of Tobi Haslett's essay "Magic Actions" (summer 2021, nplusone.mag/issue-40/

in this episode I read from Andy Smith's new collection PLAYS FOR THE PEOPLE (June 2025, INK Concrete Pub).

in this episode, i read from Fehinti Balogun's CAN I LIVE? which was originally presented by Complicite theatre as a digitally touring film. the text is published by TRANSMEDIA THEATRE PLAYS which I edited for Methuen Drama (2025).

in this episode I read Violet Affleck's powerful personal essay "A Chronically Il Earth" published May 18, 2025 in Yale Global Health Review.

in this episode I read the introduction to my new book Transmedia Theatre Plays (Methuen Drama, 2025).

in this episode I read the stories "Paper Pills" and "Mother" from Sherwood Anderson's WINESBURG, OHIO (1919)

in this episode, i start reading Sherwood Anderson's WINESBURG, OHIO (1919). The first piece called "The Book of Grotesques" and "Hands."

in this episode i read an excerpt from A.V. Marraccini's WE THE PARASITES (Sublunary Editions, 2023).

in this episode I read from Lizzie Olesker and Lynne Sachs' HAND BOOK: A MANUAL ON PERFORMANCE, PROCESS AND THE LABOR OF LAUNDRY (Punctum Books, 2025) and Anne Boyer's A HANDBOOK OF DISAPPOINTED FATE (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018).