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THE ORPHAN SEA by Caridad Svich. This is a story of us, here, now,
and also of who we were once. It is a story of those that cross
rivers and seas and those that wait for them, of a lover who
searches for one lost years ago, and of someone called Penelope,
who may be waiting for someone called Odysseus. Told in poetry,
song, film and dance, a play for anyone that dares to dream. This
play was commissioned and produced by the University of
Missouri-Columbia Department of Theatre and first directed by Kevin
Brown. This single edition of the text is published by Santa
Catalina Editions, an imprint of NoPassport.
'... love creates something that was not there before.' - Hedwig
John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask's Hedwig and the Angry Inch
opened on Valentine's Day,1998, in New York City, and ever since,
it and its genderqueer heroine have captivated audiences around the
world. As the first musical to feature a genderqueer protagonist as
its lead, the show has had an extraordinary life on film, Broadway
and in the music field. A glam rock musical with a complex
relationship to issues related to art, eroticism and matters of
identity formation, Hedwig and the Angry Inch is a darkly exuberant
fairy tale about a child that discovers she is one of a kind, but
also potentially among her own kind, if she dares travel past
borders that confine and try to stabilise her being and identity.
Caridad Svich examines this exhilarating work through the lenses of
visual and vocal rock 'n' roll performance, the history of the
American musical, and its positioning within LGBTIQ+ theatre.
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Henry VIII (Paperback)
William Shakespeare, Caridad Svich
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R258
Discovery Miles 2 580
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Caridad Svich offers a new take on the history play, which tells
the story of Henry VIII's marriage to Anne Boleyn. Shakespeare's
Henry VIII is a story of a brazen race to power and the desire for
an heir. Advised by Cardinal Wolsey, Henry VIII is caught between
church and state as he meets Anne Boleyn and seeks to annul his
marriage to Queen Katherine. This episodic and plot-driven play
examines the machinations of royal power. Shakespeare's Henry VIII,
in this new translation by Caridad Svich, is a swift-moving,
complex tale of intrigue. This translation of Henry VIII was
written as part of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Play On!
project, which commissioned new translations of thirty-nine
Shakespeare plays. These translations present work from "The Bard"
in language accessible to modern audiences while never losing the
beauty of Shakespeare's verse. Enlisting the talents of a diverse
group of contemporary playwrights, screenwriters, and dramaturges
from diverse backgrounds, this project reenvisions Shakespeare for
the twenty-first century. These volumes make these works available
for the first time in print-a new First Folio for a new era.
Featuring conversations with theatre makers in the US and UK during
the first 8 months of the Covid-19 lockdown, this collection
reveals the innovations in digital theatre as artists, companies
and theatres had to adjust to the restrictions and formulate new
ways of working and reaching audiences. Besides documenting in
their own words the work that was generated, this book captures the
artists' dreams for a new post-Covid reality in which theatre is
reimagined and issues of racial and economic injustice are
addressed. With conversations grouped under 5 broad areas, a host
of theatre makers candidly discuss the present and the future of
theatre: * R/evolution: How should theatre evolve rather than
re-set? What kind of field could this be, if the arts sector is to
survive in the US and UK and if white supremacist, classist,
ableist, and patriarchal structures are dismantled, and acts of
regeneration and reformation occur? * What does theatre look like
at the local and hyper-local level and when working with young
people and communities at risk? * What are the challenges of
creating work in the digital realm and/or exploring socially
distanced performance in new ways? * How may theatre address social
inequalities and be a place for acts of political and artistic
resistance? How has the pandemic galvanised their commitments to
communities, arts advocacy, use of languages on the stage and page,
and considerations of the living archive? * Acts of communion with
audiences, readers, fellow artists, students, and within ensembles
and collectives. How do we find new ways to gather and make when
liveness and the shared experience are challenged?
A wide-ranging look at the state of contemporary theatre practice,
economics, and issues related to identity, politics, and
technology. Contains a snapshot dissection of where theatre is,
where it has been and where it might be going through the voices of
established and emerging theatre artists and scholars from the UK,
US and elsewhere. Offers an examination of how to make theatre in a
time of crisis and why it is a vital form of communication are at
the heart of the book's mission. Asks questions such as: where is
theatre now taking place?; what is the relationship between play
and performance?; how does funding work?; what states does theatre
flourish under?; and if there is a current 'crisis of theatre'
should it not be seen as a welcome opportunity to develop a
vigorous 'theatre of crisis'?. The international list of
contributors includes Jim Carmody, Phyllis Nagy, Michael
Billington, Max Stafford-Clark, Peter Sellars, Dragan Klaic, Goat
Island, Erik Ehn and many others, making up a vast array of
practising artists, thinkers, and scholars. -- .
By turns astonishing, fierce, and tender, these seven plays by
Latina-American dramatist Caridad Svich highlight more than two
decades of boundary-breaking and genre-defying dramatic work.
Populated by characters struggling to survive, these plays are
joined by thematic threads of loss, remembrance, resurrection,
grave wit, and heroic survival.
The centerpiece of this collection, "Instructions for Breathing,"
is a lyrical, dreamlike meditation on responsibility and parenthood
that asks an audience not only to suffer the unthinkable loss of a
child as Svich's characters do, but also to laugh at the couple's
flaws and at the hilarity of the suburban life they lead. This
commingling of emotion happens in each of these dramatic portraits
of homeless castaways ("Fugitive Pieces"), women in war ("Thrush"),
and sex traffickers ("Rift"). And Svich's work is not without a nod
to the classical: "Wreckage "reframes the story of Medea and "Steal
Back Light from the Virtual" depicts a labyrinthine society torn
apart by a monstrous beast. In sum, ""Instructions for Breathing"
and Other Plays" serves as an illuminating introduction to the work
of a major playwright and an inspiring example of the breadth of
possibilities in North American drama.
Featuring conversations with theatre makers in the US and UK during
the first 8 months of the Covid-19 lockdown, this collection
reveals the innovations in digital theatre as artists, companies
and theatres had to adjust to the restrictions and formulate new
ways of working and reaching audiences. Besides documenting in
their own words the work that was generated, this book captures the
artists' dreams for a new post-Covid reality in which theatre is
reimagined and issues of racial and economic injustice are
addressed. With conversations grouped under 5 broad areas, a host
of theatre makers candidly discuss the present and the future of
theatre: * R/evolution: How should theatre evolve rather than
re-set? What kind of field could this be, if the arts sector is to
survive in the US and UK and if white supremacist, classist,
ableist, and patriarchal structures are dismantled, and acts of
regeneration and reformation occur? * What does theatre look like
at the local and hyper-local level and when working with young
people and communities at risk? * What are the challenges of
creating work in the digital realm and/or exploring socially
distanced performance in new ways? * How may theatre address social
inequalities and be a place for acts of political and artistic
resistance? How has the pandemic galvanised their commitments to
communities, arts advocacy, use of languages on the stage and page,
and considerations of the living archive? * Acts of communion with
audiences, readers, fellow artists, students, and within ensembles
and collectives. How do we find new ways to gather and make when
liveness and the shared experience are challenged?
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Stand (Paperback)
Caridad Svich
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R264
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Fuel (Paperback)
Caridad Svich
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R264
Discovery Miles 2 640
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