←Recommendations of RED BIKE

Red Bike brings you to a dream state. It is very creative and unique. The production I saw was at Wilbury Theater in Providence, RI, an appropriately intimate setting in a theatre that embraces work that pushes boundaries.
Caridad Svich held a writers workshop in conjunction with the production. She was very creative in the way she unlocked our imaginations....breathing inspiration and life to one of my plays as it turns out. Thank you Caridad. I enjoy your work.

A beautiful stream of consciousness which captures both the wonder of childhood and the wisdom of age. RED BIKE is a fantastic piece for both actors and directors, its story providing a significant amount of creative leeway to ensure that any production has its own unique voice.

Caridad has the most gorgeous mastery of language, where it's totally accessible and at the same time magical and dreamy and evocative. RED BIKE is a gem that will tease your memory and make your heart beat fast. I really would love to see it and am enticed by the fact that it's so uniquely flexible that no two production will ever be close to the same. Seems like a director's dream to me.

A poetic stream-of-consciousness ride through a former industrial town on the boundary between rural and suburban America as it is transformed by real estate speculation and the developing fulfillment center economy as seen by an eleven year-old kid whose brand new red bike has given them freedom to roam further than ever before. I interviewed Caridad Svich for Washington City Paper:
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/537070/red-bike-breathes-new-li…

Fresh, dangerous, and fun. Highly poetic with a lot of room for directorial play. Beautiful piece.

I saw Know Theatre’s production of RED BIKE in 2020 and loved how much room there was for interpretation, direction, and movement. It’s a beautiful piece that moves and flows effortlessly with the poetry of the language. This is a powerful and versatile work that will stick with you for a long time.

The 11-year-old voice in RED BIKE is a wonder of vivid images, flashing scenery, and things people wish for but will never have. There's a lot this young person doesn't understand, but she/he knows what the unknowns are -- all the things missing from the lives of the people in this small, sad town. RED BIKE is a voice poem masterwork.

Red Bike is great for many reasons. The poetry. The nostalgia. The elegiac ambiguity. The breath-catching line, "We forgot what it was we wanted / We forgot that the only thing we were here for / is to learn how to live / and how to die". With memory and familiarity as her tools, and requiring just two actors, Svich telescopes in from a drone's eye view of humanity and its ills and joys to the singular view many will recall of riding your bike down a hill, the wind in your face.

Red Bike feels like a dream, wispy and meaty all at once. Much to latch on to and still ethereal. I feel like if I read it a second time, it will be a whole different experience. Through very few words, you understand the world completely and the character and you yearn to know more.

This play swept me off my feet! I love this play with my whole heart. To be able to take something as simple as a 'red bike' and look at in so many ways through poetry and heart. The play transported me to so many different worlds. It was haunting, heartwrenching and beautiful all at the same time. As soon as the health crisis is over, this is one of the first plays I want to see live.