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A series where poetry and theatre meet - in the edge-lands, in the wilderness. Hosted by OBIE-winning playwright Caridad Svich. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/caridad-svich/support

Caridad Svich


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    S5, ep 23: from Can I Live? by Fehinti Balogun and Complicite. from TRANSMEDIA THEATRE PLAYS.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2025 20:41


    in this episode, i read from Fehinti Balogun's CAN I LIVE? which was originally presented by Complicite theatre as a digitally touring film. the text is published by TRANSMEDIA THEATRE PLAYS which I edited for Methuen Drama (2025).

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    S5, Ep 22: A Chronically Ill Earth by Violet Affleck

    Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2025 17:56


    in this episode I read Violet Affleck's powerful personal essay "A Chronically Il Earth" published May 18, 2025 in Yale Global Health Review.

    S5, Ep 21: Theatre in the Digital Age by Caridad Svich

    Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2025 45:55


    in this episode I read the introduction to my new book Transmedia Theatre Plays (Methuen Drama, 2025).

    S5, ep 20: Paper Pills and Mother from Anderson's WINESBURG OHIO

    Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2025 24:52


    in this episode I read the stories "Paper Pills" and "Mother" from Sherwood Anderson's WINESBURG, OHIO (1919)

    s5, Ep 19: The Book of Grotesques and Hands from WINESBURG OHIO by Sherwood Anderson

    Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2025 24:48


    in this episode, i start reading Sherwood Anderson's WINESBURG, OHIO (1919). The first piece called "The Book of Grotesques" and "Hands."

    S5, ep 18: excerpt from A.V. Marraccini's WE THE PARASITES

    Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2025 11:08


    in this episode i read an excerpt from A.V. Marraccini's WE THE PARASITES (Sublunary Editions, 2023).

    S5, ep 17: from Anne Boyer's Handbook of Disappointed Fate and more

    Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2025 43:39


    in this episode I read from Lizzie Olesker and Lynne Sachs' HAND BOOK: A MANUAL ON PERFORMANCE, PROCESS AND THE LABOR OF LAUNDRY (Punctum Books, 2025) and Anne Boyer's A HANDBOOK OF DISAPPOINTED FATE (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018).

    S5, ep 16: selected poems from MY HERESIES by Alina Stefanescu

    Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2025 11:40


    in this episode I read selected poems from Alina Stefanescu's new collection MY HERESIES (Sarabande Books, 2025):Byline, Be SkyTonight, As You Pace the GardenMy Father Explains Why They Left Me Behind When DefectingSocialization #2: Sky in the Other Languagesand Poem for the Blackbird.

    S5, ep 15: tracks 3 and 4 from MINOTAUR by Caridad Svich

    Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2025 14:36


    in this episode I read from tracks 3 and 4 of my performance piece MINOTAUR.

    S5, ep 14: on the passing of Joshua Clover

    Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2025 60:39


    on the passing of scholar and poet Joshua Clover, I read his essay "The Irreconcilable: Marx after Literature" and some poems from his collection RED EPIC (2015).

    S5, ep 13: The Anxious Classroom and thoughts on art and things

    Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2025 40:51


    in this episode, I read "The Anxious Classroom" essay by Joyelle McSweeney and Johannes Goransson, and also where i riff for a while on creative writing in the classroom, reading, writing, teaching and being a respondent to art.

    S5, ep 12: about the world by Caridad Svich

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2025 8:05


    in this episode i read a new monologue from a work in progess. the monologue is titled "about the world."

    S5, ep 11: Giving Thanks monologue by Caridad Svich

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2025 9:24


    in this episode, i read a monologue I forgot i had written! call it a re-discovery of a kind. the monologue is called Giving Thanks.

    S5, ep 10: scene one from Swans, Meridian by Caridad Svich

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2025 24:59


    in this episode I read the first scene/monologue from my play SWANS, MERIDIAN.

    S5, ep 9: excerpt from Little Beast by Tobia Rossi, translated by Caterina Nonis

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2025 10:17


    in this episode I read excerpt from the play LITTLE BEAST (Piccola Bestia) by Tobia Rossi, translated from the Italian by Caterina Nonis. the play won the 2023 Carlo Annoni Prize for Drama. Rossi describes it as "almost a monologue."

    S5, ep 8: Athol Fugard in dialogue 1992

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2025 28:13


    In this episode I read an interview between playwright Athol Fugard and scholar-director Floyd Gaffney, which was published in the journal TheatreForum in 1992 in their first issue. I read it in memory of Fugard's passing this year 2025. But also in memory of TheatreForum as a journal that stopped publishing, and whose presence in the field is missed.

    S5, ep 7: scene one from CLARA THOMAS BAILEY by Caridad Svich

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2025 11:18


    scene one from my play CLARA THOMAS BAILEY. a portrait of a life.

    S5, ep. 6: Pancakes by Caridad Svich

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2025 10:21


    in this episode I read a scene from a new piece of mine that is in progress. the scene is called "Pancakes".

    S5, ep 4: scenes from KORA K by Caridad Svich

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2025 38:51


    in this episode I talk about what led to the writing of KORA K and I read the first four scenes from it. KORA K is the story of a self and the space between truth and fiction. Or the story of a translator.

    S5, Ep5: A Song on Porcelain reading

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2025 14:57


    wherein I read Pinsky's Song on Porcelain essay from January 30, 2025.

    S5, ep 3: Bodies Will Swing by Jeff Sharlet

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2025 12:15


    in this episode I read "Bodies Will Swing" by Jeff Sharlet originally written on his substack blog Scenes from a Slow Civil War on February 15, 2025.

    S5, Ep 2: reading Unlimited Liabilities by Nate Holdren, Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie VIerkant

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2025 131:06


    in this episode I read, in part (with a digression mid-way on Dickens' A Christmas Carol and more), the transcript of Unlimited Liabilities (July 31, 2023) with Nate Holdren from the Death Panel podcast co-hosted by Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant. This episode is not meant to mimic their podcast but is a dramatic interpretation - my reading of the transcript itself - as experiment in performance.

    S5,Ep 1: It's the stupidity, stupid! by Nate Holdren

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2025 39:44


    in this episode I begin with a chat about the new year 2025, some thoughts on burnout culture in theatre, and then read Nate Holdren's new blog piece "It's the stupidity, stupid! (The economy does in fact suck).

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    S4, Ep 49: scenes 13-23 from THRUSH by Caridad Svich

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 27, 2024 51:30


    in this episode the rest of the play with songs THRUSH is read by its author Caridad Svich. the play originally premiered in 2006 at Salvage Vanguard Theatre in Austin, Texas. it is part of the trilogy of Land and Country Plays by Svich which include FUGITIVE PIECES (retitled on film as FUGITVE DREAMS) and RIFT. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

    S4, Ep 48: scenes 1-12 from THRUSH by Caridad Svich

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 26, 2024 45:04


    In this episode I read from scenes 1-12 of my play with songs THRUSH, which was originally produced at Salvage Vanguard Theater in Austin, Texas in 2006. THRUSH: Scenes from war and after. Slaughter songs for broken times. A love story and vaudeville of the far and near country. A young woman walks the fields. A young man trails her. The ghost songs of the fallen rise in ballads, hymns, blues and swing as if torn from the roots of mad sorrow. Content warning: the play deals with themes and images of war crimes against humanity in poetic and abstract terms. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

    S4, Ep 47: Gary Indiana on Barbara Kruger

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 6, 2024 21:13


    in this episode I read author Gary Indiana's essay on artist Barbara Kruger "The War at Home" from his collection of essays UTOPIA'S DEBRIS (2008) published by Basic Books. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

    S4, Ep 46: Gabriel Winant's The Baby and the Bathwater

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2024 74:23


    in this episode I read Gabriel Winant's "The Baby and the Bathwater: Class Analysis and Class Formation after Deindustrialization" published online on October 1, 2024 in Historical Materialism. brill.com/hima --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

    S4, ep 45: Watches by Jeff McMahon

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2024 13:26


    in this episode I read prose piece Watches by Jeff McMahon, originally published in the Table Talk from The The Threepenny Review in 2015. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

    S4, ep 44: gunge by So Mayer

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2024 40:01


    in this episode I read So Mayer's piece "gunge," which was originally posted July 25, 2024. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

    S4, Ep 43: The Orange and the Brick by Caridad Svich

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2024 21:15


    "The Orange and the Brick" an essay by Caridad Svich. featured in The Routledge Companion to Latine Theatre and Performance edited by Noe Montez and Olga Sanchez Saltveit. Published 2024. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

    S4, Ep 42: What is to be Done? Manifesto by CJ THE X

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2024 43:36


    reading CJ THE X's WHAT IS TO BE DONE? A Manifesto to Return to Web 1.5, first posted on their website on March 1, 2024. https://www.cjthex.com/what-is-to-be-done/ continuing my recording of work of artists I admire. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

    S4, Ep 41: MANIFESTO: THEATRE FOR THE DEAD by Kit Danowski

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2024 60:21


    in memory of scholar, poet, playwright, theatre-maker, director Kit Danowski, who passed away the week of July 29, 2024 (announced on July 31, 2024 on social media), a reading of their MANIFESTO: THEATRE FOR THE DEAD, published in Global Performance Studies, vol.3, no. 2, 2020. https://doi.org/10.33303/gpsv3n2a9 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

    S4, Ep 40: reading Pantea Javidan's False Divisions and Dubious Equivalences

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2024 60:30


    In this episode, I read scholar Pantea Javidan's important article "False Divisions and Dubious Equivalencies: children's rights during the Covid-19 pandemic." the article was published as an open access piece on ManchesterHive.com on July 2024. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

    S4, Ep 39: On Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism & Modernism

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2024 132:13


    reading from and engaging with chapter one and seven from Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism (Published 2009, John Hunt Publishing) through the lens of modernism and post-modernism. with nods to Wallace Shawn, Julio Torres, Samuel Beckett, and more in passing. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

    S4, Ep 38: On Fornes and Osterweil and Work

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2024 20:26


    two readings in this episode: 1. from my essay on Maria Irene Fornes published in the Mentorship issue of The Dramatist Quarterly spring 2024 (Vol 26, No 2). and 2. Vicky Osterweil's "Work Will Set You Free" published on their substack All Cats Are Beautiful on July 17, 2024. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

    S4, Ep 37: Helen Iball's intro to BLASTED study guide

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2024 56:50


    the introduction to Helen Iball's study guide to Sarah Kane's BLASTED (Methuen Drama, 2008) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

    S4, Ep 36: untitled desert play reverie by Caridad Svich

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2024 7:39


    some text from work in progress, untitled desert play by Caridad Svich. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caridad-svich/support

    S4, Ep 35: More musings on Beckett, Modernism and Politics

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2024 76:43


    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

    S4, Ep 34: from Dalton Trumbo's JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2024 25:25


    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

    S4, ep 33: Musing on Samuel Beckett and Modernism

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2024 91:53


    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/show/caridad-svich/support

    S4, Ep 32: Waiting for Recognition by Elinor Fuchs

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2024 42:25


    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

    S4, Ep 31: reading THE WASTE LAND by T.S. Eliot

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2024 25:47


    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

    S4, Ep 30: Modernist musing on T.S. Eliot

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2024 66:18


    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

    S4, Ep 29: Modernism in Literature Part 2: Marx, Darwin, Nietzsche, and more

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2024 158:18


    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

    S4, Ep 25: lost episode. Nate Holdren on the future

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2024 16:37


    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

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    S4, Ep 28: Modernism in Literature: an overview

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2024 133:36


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

    S4, Ep 27: from David Barnett's THEATRICALITY, PLAYTEXTS AND SOCIETY

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2024 25:49


    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

    S4, Ep. 26: from Fintan Walsh's PERFORMING GRIEF In PANDEMIC THEATRES

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2024 50:38


    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

    S4, Ep 24: from Sara Freeman's Playwriting, Dramaturgy and Space

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2024 28:45


    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

    S4, Ep 23: On the text, author, and reader

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2024 64:17


    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

    S4, Ep 22: on ghosts and writing

    Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2024 70:08


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

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