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THE VANISHED. a play by Caridad Svich. In a house near the sometime sea, a birthday party is being celebrated for the lost children of the earth. A story about finding communion in times of extinction. A rueful poetic drama.

HURT SONG. A play by Caridad Svich. Synopsis: You pick through trash, you are trash, says someone. How do you find your worth in a land that tells you otherwise? This is the ballad of the hurting kind - those displaced from their homes, looking for work and sent to places in the middle of the country to make their way. Call this a story about climate refugees. Or we can just call this a fable for dark times. This publication is a Santa Catalina Editions and NoPassport Press endeavor.

HOLLER RIVER is a play by Caridad Svich. A soldier waits for another to come home. They were teacher and student once. A town waits, too, deep in the heart of coal country, while the one who roams wrestles with what home even means. A story about the stories we tell ourselves to survive, the songs we sing to get by, and the maps we make of our warring lives. This play is part of a seven-play cycle entitled American Psalm. This is a Santa Catalina Editions and NoPassport Press publication.

RED BIKE by Caridad Svich. A play about being a chid, growing up, living in small town America and figuring out where you stand in a divided country. A fable of dreams and possibility for our times. RED BIKE is an NNPN rolling world premiere. This publication is for Santa Catalina Editions and NoPassport Press.

AUTOPSY OF A SNOWFLAKE. (Autopsia de un copo de nieve)by Luis Santillán. Translated by Caridad Svich. In this play, a mother and her two daughters play out a darkly comic and tragic cycle of co-dependency that leads to an increasingly isolated interior landscape for each of them that spirals beyond their control. A story about the void at the heart of upper middle-class life and the patriarchal structures that contain women. This translation/adaptation was commissioned and developed at The Lark, New York City, as part of the 2019 US/Mexico Playwright Exchange Program, where it received a rehearsed reading under the direction of Adrian Alexander Alea. This publication is a collaboration between The Lark and NoPassport Press.

THIS THING OF OURS by Caridad Svich. A text for live performance. In THIS THING OF OURS, an act of violence struck our city. This has happened before. We say we will put our lives back together. Years will go by. We will grow apart, come together, have children, and some of us, will wonder how to keep going, as we turn to myths and seek lessons there. In our theaters of memory, in our songs of transcendence, perhaps we will find peace. THIS THING OF OURS was first seen at Repertory Theatre of St. Louis' Ignite Festival of New Work.

STAGES OF RESISTANCE: THEATRE AND POLITICS IN THE CAPITALOCENE edited by Caridad Svich with Olivia George. A collection of essays, interviews & reflections on the multiple meanings of political theatre, and the ways in which progressive, wholistic cultural change may be instigated through artworks. Contributors include Rachel Mars and Roberta Mock, Maddy Costa, Andy Smith, Mary Kathryn Nagle, Yvette Nolan, Leila Buck, Dipika Guha, Zakiyyah Alexander, Andy Field and more. This publication is a collaboration between The Lark and NoPassport Press.

AGUA DE LUNA (PSALMS FOR THE ROUGE) is a new play by Caridad Svich that traces the personal lives of three couples living in southwest Detroit. Written in close-ups snapshots of ache, hunger, passion and hope, the play speaks to the search for a bit of magic in the everyday. This play premiered at Matrix Theatre Company in Detroit, which commissioned the piece. This is a Santa Catalina Editions publication.

JARMAN (all this maddening beauty) by Caridad Svich. This text for live performance by OBIE winning playwright Caridad Svich is inspired by the life and works of British filmmaker Derek Jarman (1942-1994). An homage and reflection on the legacy of queer art, this piece tells the story of a beautiful boy and queer angel in the now looking back at then. A dazzling poetic rendering, JARMAN explores the limits of the possible for both stage and film. First produced by force/collision ensemble in Washington D.C., the piece toured limited venues in the US and UK in 2014 and 2015. Published in a collection by the author from Intellect Books in the UK in 2016, this is a new single edition of the performance text from Santa Catalina Editions and NoPassport.

WHEN I WAS BOTH by Caridad Svich. Jenna loses her job at university after 20-odd years in the field. This action, out of her control, sends her on a journey, where she will discover more about herself than she might have ever known. As her circle of friends tries to support and challenge her, Jenna finds a new path - one that becomes an investigation into memory and being - a map of the self. A play about Western society's "invisible women" living within the structures of late capitalism.