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Caridad Svich

@csvich.bsky.social

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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.

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Caridad Svich @csvich.bsky.social · Jul 22

if you missed it... i started Pocket theatre. here is first post

Caridad Svich @csvich.bsky.social · Jul 21

i wrote a little something abt plays. open.substack.com/pub/csvich/p...

I miss when plays were just plays

or not nostalgia but something else

open.substack.com

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Caridad Svich @csvich.bsky.social · 6h

digital theatre (audio, streaming, broadcast, hybrid) makes theatre widely accessible to so many people, and yet most theatre says nah

Caridad Svich @csvich.bsky.social · 6h

hear ya!

Caridad Svich @csvich.bsky.social · 6h

there are some in NYC as well as out

Caridad Svich @csvich.bsky.social · 6h

Oscar winning performances by actors in films that barely anyone saw

Caridad Svich @csvich.bsky.social · 7h

definitely!

Caridad Svich @csvich.bsky.social · 8h

dear theatre, even now

Caridad Svich @csvich.bsky.social · 8h

i had to read the sentence twice

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Caridad Svich @csvich.bsky.social · 8h

today in pocket theatre, i write abt blurb plays. open.substack.com/pub/csvich/p...

blurb theatre

theatre's gap

open.substack.com

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Caridad Svich @csvich.bsky.social · 8h

reading a critic who says Caryl Churchill's plays have nothing to do with politics...

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Caridad Svich @csvich.bsky.social · 8h

yes

Caridad Svich @csvich.bsky.social · 23h

in the end times, time is short. give it to the new plays. let the living writers enjoy it before its all over

Caridad Svich @csvich.bsky.social · 23h

truly!

Caridad Svich @csvich.bsky.social · 1d

maybe one day one of the new plays will be seen

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Caridad Svich @csvich.bsky.social · 1d

Nobel Prize for Caryl Churchill when oh when

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Caridad Svich @csvich.bsky.social · 1d

dear theatre, feeling structure

Caridad Svich @csvich.bsky.social · 1d

ooo

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Roberta Mock @robertamock.bsky.social · 2d

You can read 'Caryl Churchill's Eco-Socialist Feminism' by Elaine Aston (published by Cambridge University Press) for free online until 22 October:

www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Cover of Cambridge Elements title: Caryl Churchill's Eco-Socialist Feminism by Elaine Aston

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Caridad Svich @csvich.bsky.social · 1d

second this. the superb Justin.

Caridad Svich @csvich.bsky.social · 1d

yes

Caridad Svich @csvich.bsky.social · 1d

omfg. its like when the Top Girls revival was on Broadway under James McDonald's direction and the MTC audience didnt understand the structure of the play and kept saying it needed to be linear 🤦‍♀️

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Caridad Svich @csvich.bsky.social · 1d

Knowlson is the deal!

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Caridad Svich @csvich.bsky.social · 1d

"think too what happens when some plays written in the US are called "too European to produce"

Caridad Svich @csvich.bsky.social · 1d

today in pocket theatre, i write abt theatre's power grab. open.substack.com/pub/csvich/p...

taste unmakers

theatre's power grab

open.substack.com

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Caridad Svich @csvich.bsky.social · 1d

many theatres practicing radical inclusion somehow always "forget" about disability

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Caridad Svich @csvich.bsky.social · 1d

today in pocket theatre, i write abt theatre's power grab. open.substack.com/pub/csvich/p...

taste unmakers

theatre's power grab

open.substack.com

Caridad Svich @csvich.bsky.social · 1d

theatre producer