JARMAN (all this maddening beauty) and other plays

Edited by Caridad Svich Series edited by Patrick Duggan

Publication date:

01 March 2016

Publisher

Intellect Books

Dimensions:

229x178mm
7x9"

ISBN-13: 9781783206223

JARMAN (all this maddening beauty) and Other Plays is a collection of three radically poetic works for live performance by OBIE award–winning playwright Caridad Svich. The playtexts include a lyrical meditation on the legacy of iconic queer artist Derek Jarman, a meditation on displacement and human suffering (Carthage/Cartagena) and an intimately operatic reflection on Penelope and Odysseus (The Orphan Sea). Accompanied by scholarly essays placing the plays in context, this book showcases the beautiful strangeness and profound resistance in Svich’s work.

Beautiful Strangeness: The Plays of Caridad Svich
Kevin Brown

‘When I think of him, I think of angels’: Introducing JARMAN (all this maddening beauty)
Theron Schmidt

Performing JARMAN (all this maddening beauty)
John Moletress

JARMAN (all this maddening beauty)
Caridad Svich

Laying Siege to Carthage
Pedro de Senna

Carthage/Cartagena: when I looked up I looked for something (call it hope)
Caridad Svich

On the Act of Regarding Another: Some Thoughts on Live Performance, Silence, and Fragility
Caridad Svich

The Orphan Sea
Caridad Svich

'Caridad Svich is one of the finest poet/playwrights of this generation. By this I don’t just mean she is a poet and a playwright, but she is a playwright whose plays perform like dramatic poems that are wondrous to the ear and moving to the heart. '