Day for Night with Caridad Svich

excerpts from several scenes from the play AGUA DE LUNA (psalms for the rouge) by Caridad Svich. this play is published by Intellect Books, UK in the collection THE HOUR OF ALL THINGS AND OTHER PLAYS by Caridad Svich. There is also a single edition of the play published by Santa Catalina Editions, an imprint of NoPassport Press

musing on literature as portal, affectivity, the book as object, film as dream, and relationality in this informal lecture on where to begin in literature.

in this episode I read a monologue from my play ARCHIPELAGO - a love story about someone from here, and someone from there trying to forge a connection in a troubled world. The monologue feels especially apt given everything that is happening in the world today. Also in this episode I chat a bit about the play's development and how it premiered in the UK.

In this episode, I read a section from work in progress BAD ENGLISH.

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.

opening and chapter one from Dan O'Brien's memoir FROM SCARSDALE published by Dalkey Archive Press, 2023.

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.

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).

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).

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).

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.

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.

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.

excerpt from work-in-progress BAD ENGLISH by Caridad Svich

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.

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).

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.

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.

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

S3, Ep 35: 2nd excerpt - the Coral scene - from PRODIGAL KISS by Caridad Svich.

In this episode, I read from and talk about my play PRODIGAL KISS, and the heartbreak of theatre.

essay from early 2000s "Embracing the Fragile" by Caridad Svich.

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.

S3, Ep 31: excerpt from the book DISOBEDIENT THEATRE by Chris Johnston. Published by Bloomsbury Drama, 2017.

S3, Ep 30: excerpt from the play BOXING 2000 by Richard Maxwell. published by TCG in 2004 in the collection plays 1996-2000.