Day for Night with Caridad Svich

in this episode I read So Mayer's piece "gunge," which was originally posted July 25, 2024.

"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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

the introduction to Helen Iball's study guide to Sarah Kane's BLASTED (Methuen Drama, 2008)

some text from work in progress, untitled desert play by Caridad Svich.

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).