Caridad Svich

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  • Bibliography:
    38 Books
  • First Book:
    April 2007
  • Latest Book:
    May 2019
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Book List in Order: 38 titles

  • Lorca Major Plays Volume I

  • Lorca: Major Plays Volume II

  • Twelve Ophelias

    In Caridad Svich's play with songs TWELVE OPHELIAS, Shakespeare's Ophelia rises up out of the water dreaming of Pop-Tarts and other sweet things. She finds herself in a neo-Elizabethan Appalachian setting where Gertrude runs a brothel, Hamlet is call...

  • Lorca: Six Major Plays

    LORCA: SIX MAJOR PLAYS gathers Federico García Lorca's most well-known plays in English-language translations by US Latina dramatist Caridad Svich. This new collected edition (previously available only as single set volumes) includes preface by scho...

  • The Tropic of X

    Against the ceaseless watch of a dirty sea, two lovers named Mori and Maura try to survive against all odds. A poetic, hip-hop inspired drama of epic love, immigration, sexual tourism, and globalisation by Caridad Svich, one of the US' most daring La...

  • Envisioning the Americas

    Envisioning the Americas: Latina/o Theatre & Performance gathers five plays by five of the Us' most daring Latina/o dramatists: Migdalia Cruz, John Jesurun, Oliver Mayer, Alejandro Morales, and Anne Garcia-Romero. With a preface by Academy Award-nomi...

  • Lorca Major Plays Volume 1

  • Prodigal Kiss and Perdita Gracia: Two Plays by Caridad Svich

    Two 'horizon' plays by US Latina dramatist Caridad Svich: PRODIGAL KISS and PERDITA GRACIA, inspired by Federico Garcia Lorca's Poet in New York and Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, respectively. Dynamic, lyrical dramas for a new audience....

  • Iphigenia Crash Land Falls On The Neon Shell That Was Once Her Heart

    This play by US Latina playwright Caridad Svich was finalist for the 2005 PEN Award in Drama. This new edition features an introduction by Amy Littlefield. A rave fable inspired by Euripides Iphigenia at Aulis, this play with music and video spins Ip...



  • Wreckage

    Two boys emerge from the sea and become engulfed in a world of savage longing and desire. Drawing on the Greek myth of Medea, this sharply crafted play examines the role of displaced persons searching for home amidst a culture of brutality. The styl...

  • Alchemy of Desire/Dead-Man's Blues

  • Something Simple, Plain-Spoken

  • The Spanish Golden Age Plays

    The Spanish Golden Age Plays collects three playful, spirited, go-for-broke adaptation/translations by Us Latina dramatist Caridad Svich of comedies by Maria Zayas de Sotomayor, Lope de Vega, and Calderon de la Barca. These three plays - A Little Bet...

  • The Land and Country Plays

    The Land and Country Plays: Fugitive Pieces, Thrush and Rift by 2012 OBIE Award winning playwright Caridad Svich. A bold, brutal and tender trilogy of plays about individuals adrift in worlds of ruin, war, and exile....

  • 24 Gun Control Plays

    24 Gun Control Plays brings together new work in support of gun control from playwrights Neil LaBute, Elaine Avila, Kyle Bostian, Neil Blackadder, Alex Broun, Gab Cody, Tameka Cage Conley, Cecilia Copeland, Yvette Heyliger, Amina Henry, Zac Kline, Je...

  • The Breath of Theatre

    This volume collects ten years of conversations and critical reflections by Obie-winning playwright and arts journalist Caridad Svich. Leading artists profiled in this book include Tim Crouch, Ariel Dorfman, Marguerite Feitlowitz, Philip Kan Gotanda,...

  • Outlaw Plays

    OUTLAW PLAYS by US playwright Caridad Svich focus on characters living outside boundaries imagined and real. The two plays in this volume- KILL TO EAT (a patriot song) and PENSACOLA - are driven by a punk energy in their use of language and the stagi...

  • Guapa

    In Caridad Svich's play Guapa: Single-mom Roly lives in a dusty Texas town that everyone longs to escape. She's never seen anything like Guapa, a natural-born athlete with a fiery ambition to become an international soccer star. When Guapa joins Roly...

  • Plays of Intimacy and Grace

    Three plays by US playwright Caridad Svich that chart the rise and fall of couples in and out of love, loss and moments of tenderness and grace: INSTRUCTIONS FOR BREATHING, IN YOUR ARMS and GRACE (IN THE UPPER ROOM). With an introduction on Svich's p...



  • Fire Plays

    Fire Plays by Caridad Svich brings together five plays - A Good Kick, Missing, Remains, Away Down Dreaming and Genuine Bonafide Article - which have never been seen before. The plays range stylistically from two 100-word plays to a poetic text to a p...

  • Absence

    ABSENCE (El Ausente) by Victor Rascon Banda in translation by Caridad Svich. Three generations of a Mexico City family endure the absence of a son and husband who have left for the United States. The epic journey of the migrant northward too often ov...

  • Upon the Fragile Shore

    UPON THE FRAGILE SHORE is a play for four actors by Caridad Svich that explores human rights and environmental issues around the world especially in relationship to human-made tragedies and their aftermath. The play centers on stories from the United...

  • Early Plays

    Early Plays: Volume One: four early works from playwright-poet Caridad Svich that offer tantalizing glimpses into the seeds of her future writing. This collection contains two solo performance texts Scar and Torch, and two chamber plays Nightwood and...

  • Spark

    Spark is a play by Caridad Svich about three sisters living in the Us caught in the mess of a recent war's aftermath. It is about what happens when soldiers come home, when women of little economic means must find a way to make do and carry on, and t...

  • Hide Sky

    in HIDE SKY by OBIE-winner Caridad Svich, a mother's passing brings an estranged sibling home to the Florida Panhandle. Upon return, she confronts matters of love, faith and reconnecting with the brother and sister whom she left behind. A poetically ...

  • A Little Story and Other Plays

    A Little Story and other plays. Three plays by Obie winner Caridad Svich: A Little Story centers on the disappearance of a displaced person at a detention center, and a web of intrigue that follows; 40 Ounces Of Sand traces the death of a foreign dip...

  • The Way of Water

    The Way Of Water is a play by Caridad Svich that pits the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon 2010 Bp oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico next to the lives of those affected by it. It's a story about four people making do as best they can, living their li...

  • A Year of Light

    A Year of Light by Caridad Svich. A dream play that takes a journey through the interlocking stories of passengers on a train over the course of one long, magical day and night, as they discover their passions, unravel their desires, live inside fant...

  • de Troya

    DE TROYA by Caridad Svich is a mash-up of a ghost story, a mythic urban fable and a cracked fairy tale for a contemporary world. This play received its world premiere in April 2017 as a Cara Mía Theatre Co. production (David Lozano, Executive Artist...



  • The Orphan Sea

    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 Pen...

  • Archipelago

    ARCHIPELAGO by Caridad Svich is a memory play, a love story, and a dream of life. This play for two actors premiered at Lighthouse Poole Centre for the Arts in England and later at Son of Semele Ensemble in Los Angeles in the USA. This edition is pub...

  • JARMAN

    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 qu...

  • When I Was Both

    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 ...

  • An Acorn

    AN ACORN by Caridad Svich. A text for performance that traces the journey of a person that loses their voice one morning after an event that shocks the foundation of the society in which they live. A poem-play for a new world order. Originally commis...

  • Gertie and Alice by the Sea

    GERTIE AND ALICE BY THE SEA by Caridad Svich. In the last house in the world, two women live out their days. They could be the famous Gertie and Alice, but they are not necessarily. They still do the things we do--eating, talking, laughing with frien...

  • This Thing of Ours

    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, ha...

  • Autopsy of a Snowflake

    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 inter...

  • RED BIKE

    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 pu...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Caridad Svich has published 38 books.

Caridad Svich does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, RED BIKE, was published in May 2019.

The first book by Caridad Svich, Lorca Major Plays Volume I, was published in April 2007.

No. Caridad Svich does not write books in series.
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