Caridad Svich

Caridad Svich (born July 30, 1963) is an award-winning playwright, songwriter/lyricist, translator, and editor.

Quotes

• The vanishing middle-class, distinct rich/poor class divisions in the US and poverty continue to be issues that nag and tear at the social fabric but rarely are put front and centre in plays and works for live performance. I don’t think every play needs to address these topics, of course. I do think the daily lives of citizens—the sheer struggle to get by, make do, and the increased dependency on credit (and therefore, debt) are issues that affect everyone…
  • On the topics rarely addressed in theater in “Making Invisible Stories Seen, Heard and Felt Interview with Caridad Svich” in The IATC webjournal/Revue web de l'AICT – Autumn 2010: Issue No 3

• There are so many “invisible” stories still, and one of the beauties of writing for the stage is making these so-called “invisible” stories seen and heard and felt. In terms of form, I think my work as a dramatist is becoming starker and leaner, rather than more baroque…
  • On making stories visible in “Making Invisible Stories Seen, Heard and Felt Interview with Caridad Svich” in The IATC webjournal/Revue web de l'AICT – Autumn 2010: Issue No 3

• Plays are events in time and space. Plays are music. Word music. Visual music. I’ve always thought of plays as a form of composition—of text and the architecture of the experience of the full-length evening…
  • On how she describes plays in “Making Invisible Stories Seen, Heard and Felt Interview with Caridad Svich” in The IATC webjournal/Revue web de l'AICT – Autumn 2010: Issue No 3

• These type of stories still go on. This is something that has to be said. It’s been done in many ways, but I think that theater being done live has a different impact. And when we come out of the show we stop and think–”What can I do in my society to make it better?”
  • On how the story portrayed in In the Time of Butterflies that Svich adapted for the stage still occurs in “Interview with Playwright Caridad Svich: “In the Time of the Butterflies” in San Diego Free Press (2014 Jan 25)