Caridad Svich

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 centrepiece of this collection, Instructions for Breathing, is a lyrical, dreamlike meditation...

Caridad Svich offers a new take on the history play, which tells the story of Henry VIII’s marriage to Anne Boleyn. Shakespeare’s Henry VIII is a story of a brazen race to power and the desire for an heir. Advised by Cardinal Wolsey, Henry VIII is caught between church and state as he meets Anne Boleyn and seeks to annul...

‘… love creates something that was not there before.’ – Hedwig John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask's Hedwig and the Angry Inch opened on Valentine’s Day, 1998, in New York City, and ever since, it and its genderqueer heroine have captivated audiences around the world. As the first musical to feature a genderqueer protagonist as its lead, the show has...