←Recommendations of GUAPA

  • Sam Hamashima: GUAPA by Caridad Svich
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    Family becomes much more than those that share blood in this brightly earnest script. Caridad Svich's use of song, poetry, multiple languages, and futbol (among other ingredients) provides a glorious soundscape and atmosphere. Guapa is a story bursting off the page. Goalllllll!

    Family becomes much more than those that share blood in this brightly earnest script. Caridad Svich's use of song, poetry, multiple languages, and futbol (among other ingredients) provides a glorious soundscape and atmosphere. Guapa is a story bursting off the page. Goalllllll!

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  • olga sanchez saltveit: GUAPA by Caridad Svich
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    A poetic work of found family near the border, protecting each other's dreams even as they challenge them. The muscular, soaring dreams of futbol fill a young woman's heart and body, transcending human limitations with spirit.

    A poetic work of found family near the border, protecting each other's dreams even as they challenge them. The muscular, soaring dreams of futbol fill a young woman's heart and body, transcending human limitations with spirit.

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  • Eugene O'Neill Theater Center: GUAPA by Caridad Svich
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    It is the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's pleasure to recommend Caridad Svich and their play Guapa as a finalist for our 2012 National Playwrights Conference. The play rose through a competitive, anonymous, multileveled selection process that took nearly nine months to execute. As one finalist out of hundreds of submissions, the strength of this play’s writing has allowed this work to prosper in such a competitive selection process.

    It is the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's pleasure to recommend Caridad Svich and their play Guapa as a finalist for our 2012 National Playwrights Conference. The play rose through a competitive, anonymous, multileveled selection process that took nearly nine months to execute. As one finalist out of hundreds of submissions, the strength of this play’s writing has allowed this work to prosper in such a competitive selection process.

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  • National New Play Network: GUAPA by Caridad Svich
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    Guapa by Caridad Svich received a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere. The partnering NNPN Member Theaters were Borderlands Theater (Tucson, AZ), Miracle Theatre Group (Portland, OR), and Phoenix Theatre (Indianapolis, IN).

    Guapa by Caridad Svich received a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere. The partnering NNPN Member Theaters were Borderlands Theater (Tucson, AZ), Miracle Theatre Group (Portland, OR), and Phoenix Theatre (Indianapolis, IN).

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  • Heather Helinsky: GUAPA by Caridad Svich
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    It was pure joy to dramaturg the NNPN rolling world premiere of GUAPA and live with these characters: sitting with them at the kitchen table as well as their interior, poetic dreamscape. The audiences are down for the ride, as women's soccer is such an accessible, universal experience and we can all recognize the tragedy of an aspiring character who is aging out of her sport. Caridad's plays are always soaring poetic and political theatre and I had recommended this to university programs looking for more relevant plays to serve their students.

    It was pure joy to dramaturg the NNPN rolling world premiere of GUAPA and live with these characters: sitting with them at the kitchen table as well as their interior, poetic dreamscape. The audiences are down for the ride, as women's soccer is such an accessible, universal experience and we can all recognize the tragedy of an aspiring character who is aging out of her sport. Caridad's plays are always soaring poetic and political theatre and I had recommended this to university programs looking for more relevant plays to serve their students.

    ”