This is a wide-ranging look at the state of contemporary theatre practice, economics, and issues related to identity, politics, and technology. The volume offers a snapshot dissection of where theatre is, where it has been and where it might be going through the voices of established and emerging theatre artists and scholars from the UK, US and elsewhere. An examination of how to make theatre in a time of crisis and why it is a vital form of communication are at the heart of the book's mission.

LORCA: SIX MAJOR PLAYS gathers Federico Garcia 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 scholars James Leverett and Amy Rogoway. A welcome addition to the translation repertoire of Federico Garcia Lorca's works.

By turns astonishing, fierce, and tender, these seven plays by Latina-American dramatist Caridad Svich highlight more than two decades of boundary-breaking and genre-defying dramatic work. Populated by characters struggling to survive, these plays are joined by thematic threads of loss, remembrance, resurrection, grave wit, and heroic survival.
The centerpiece of this collection, "Instructions for Breathing," is a lyrical, dreamlike meditation on responsibility and parenthood that asks an audience not only to suffer the unthinkable loss of a child as Svich s characters do, but also to...

Award-winning play with songs by Caridad Svich that examines grief, loss and the power of love. A young woman loses her husband in a recent war. A community rallies round to save her.

A seriocomic road movie for the stage by US Latina dramatist Caridad Svich about friendship, family, loss and the desire to be free.

The three plays by OBIE-winning playwright Caridad Svich examine varying aspects of art and decadence through the lens of contemporary visual art, photography, painting, and fashion. MAGNIFICENT WASTE (2012 finalist for PEN Center USA Literary Award in Drama), LULU ASCENDING (a play on Wedekind's Lulu plays) and TILT HEAVEN are acid-dipped views of celebrity culture and consumerism, suffused with a hard ache for the lost souls that inhabit their distinct harsh-lit, emptied worlds of sadness.

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.

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 BETRAYAL AMONG FRIENDS, THE LABYRINTH OF DESIRE and THE MONSTER IN THE GARDEN - play fast and loose with issues of gender, sexuality, and identity and shed new light on works from Spain's golden age of drama.

THE TROPIC OF X is a play by 2012 OBIE-award winning playwright Caridad Svich. This five-character play tells the defiant love story of Mori and Maura, two street kids hustling and trying to survive in a broken city somewhere in the polyglot Americas. This new edition, which marks the 2013 North American premiere of the play, includes an introduction by scholar Marvin Carlson, a director's statement by Nathan A. Cooper and an essay by scholar Tamara Underiner.