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; Everyone, or The Dead; The Child-Migrant" as published on December 9, 2017 in the fanzine these selections may be found on...

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

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

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/caridad-svich/support

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/support

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