Imagine there is a playwright with the rhythm, the cadence, the music of Samuel Beckett
Who is the anti-Beckett
Where Beckett is loneliness, despair, plunging into the abyss,
Caridad Svich in TOWN HALL is about connection, memory, hope.
As a play it is a proposal for a ceremony or interactive liturgy.
Yes, the audience is involved, but not forced to perform
Or to react in any particular way,
But only to be present.
Given the playwright's creativity in the digital medium, it would be interesting to see it reconceived for that format.
A profound act of healing.

Invoking Sarah Kane's Craved meets Model UN, drenched in play and possibility, Caridad Svich has written a piece that feels like a deep breath in and out. Slightly anonymous, open and politically minded, but always self aware of its scope and purposes: this play holds space for us to gather and think. Svich has challenged the structures of the page just as much as the audience is challenged by the play's open ended questions and memories. I feel thankful to have read Town Hall.

I desperately want be in the audience for a performance of this work. Absolutely different and challenging, this work places the audience as a central force, rather than passive spectator. Caridad Svich has created something that feels breathing and alive in the moment, but also timeless in its themes. Brilliant.