in this episode, i continue musings on Samuel Beckett and Modernism. with excerpt from James McNaughton's SAMUEL BECKETT AND THE POLITICS OF AFTERMATH (Oxford University Press, 2018). --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

in this episode I read from chapter one of Dalton Trumbo's novel JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN. (published by Penguin Random House edition 1984). the novel was written in 1938 and published in 1939. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

an informal lecture/musing on the author Samuel Beckett, focusing a bit on his works KRAPP'S LAST TAPE and WAITING FOR GODOT, through a modernist lens. with excerpt from Steven Connor's book BECKETT, MODERNISM AND THE MATERIAL IMAGINATION published by Cambridge University Press. (2014) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/sh…

reading Elinor Fuchs' essay "Waiting for Recognition" (2007) first published by Modern Drama journal. University of Toronto Press. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

in this episode, I read T.S. Eliot's THE WASTE LAND. 434 lines. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

an informal lecture musing on T.S. Eliot and Modernism, esp. in relation to THE WASTE LAND as a core text of Modernism. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

an informal lecture on what begat/influenced Modernism in literature and art. key figures. key thinking. and as always, how capitalism intersects with all --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

reading from Nate Holdren's slow cancellation of the future. blog piece dated June 6, 2024. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

the first in a series of informal musings on Modernism in literature. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

excerpt from David Barnett's book THEATRICALITY, PLAYTEXTS AND SOCIETY. Published by Cambridge University Press, 2024. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

reading from sections of the book PERFORMING GRIEF IN PANDEMIC THEATRES by Fintan Walsh. published by Cambridge University Press, 2024. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

an excerpt from Sara Freeman's book Playwriting, Dramaturgy and Space published by Cambridge University Press in 2023 as part of the Cambridge Elements Contemporary Performance Texts series. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

an informal lecture/reflection by Caridad Svich on the relationship among the text, the author and the reader --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

an informal lecture on ghosts in writing - their function and their existence. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

reading from the introduction to Jonas Barish's The Anti-theatrical Prejudice (UC Press, 1981), and abstract/summary of Eileen Fischer's review of this book in Modern Drama journal (University of Toronto Press, Volume 25, Number 3, Fall 1982, pp. 435-437) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support…

an informal lecture on wound theory and affect in literature. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

an informal lecture on how secrets and suspense work in literature. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

in this episode, i read selections from Joyelle McSweeney's work, as follows: a. "Toxic Sonnets: A Crown for John Keats" from Toxicon and Arachne, Nightboat Books, 2020. b. the poems "Black Orchid" and "The History Plays" from Arachne, as published in folder magazine c. the essay "The Toxic & The Lyric II: Hearing and Hell; Inversion as Subversion;…

an informal lecture/reflection on narrative in literature, its uses and positions within power structures. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

informal lecture on aspects of character and voice in literature. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

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 --- Support this pod…

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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

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 …

In this episode, I read a section from work in progress BAD ENGLISH. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

opening and chapter one from Dan O'Brien's memoir FROM SCARSDALE published by Dalkey Archive Press, 2023. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

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). --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

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). --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

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). --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/…

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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support…

excerpt from work-in-progress BAD ENGLISH by Caridad Svich --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

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). --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/suppor…

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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support…

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 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

S3, Ep 35: 2nd excerpt - the Coral scene - from PRODIGAL KISS by Caridad Svich. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

In this episode, I read from and talk about my play PRODIGAL KISS, and the heartbreak of theatre. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

essay from early 2000s "Embracing the Fragile" by Caridad Svich. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

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. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

S3, Ep 31: excerpt from the book DISOBEDIENT THEATRE by Chris Johnston. Published by Bloomsbury Drama, 2017. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

S3, Ep 30: excerpt from the play BOXING 2000 by Richard Maxwell. published by TCG in 2004 in the collection plays 1996-2000. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

S3, Ep 29: excerpt from the Austin section of THE FUTURE SHOW by Deborah Pearson. Published by Oberon Modern Plays in 2015. with mentions of Action Hero, Kieran Hurley, Bryony Kimmings, Austin's Fusebox Festival, and more. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support…

"Finding hope in a time of despair" by Jo Clifford. from their substack The Light Inside. this piece was posted on August 2nd, 2023. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

excerpt from untitled new work in progress by Caridad Svich. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

Excerpt from the chapter titled "Ambition" from the book MY TRADE IS MYSTERY by Carl Phillips. (Yale University Press, 2022). --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

Excerpt from the Introduction to CERTAIN FRAGMENTS by Tim Etchells read by Caridad Svich, and some thoughts on theatre in response. CERTAIN FRAGMENTS is published by Taylor and Francis (1999). --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support