←Recommendations of RED BIKE

This play is stunningly beautiful. I saw a reading of the one character version last night at Jackalope. Svich captures a moment in childhood where dreams collide with future realities. The play is a devastating meditation on inequality, greed and consumer culture as seen through the eyes of a child grappling with the gulf between potential and opportunity. The story is dynamic, nuanced and beautifully layered. Svich's poetry and imagery are breathtaking.

This play was featured at NNPN’s 2017 National Showcase of New Plays.

beautiful in its complex simplicity. can’t wait to see this one staged in all manor of possibilities.

A necessary play for our current age!! Told through the perspective of an 11 year old, Svich uses beautiful poetry to paint an image of what America was, is and can be. A play that should be done in big theaters and on street corners.

Svich's poetry was absolutely beautiful! The phrase that most comes to mind about this piece is "impressively curated." No detail was ignored and all of the elements work together beautifully. I also appreciate how much flexibility there is with this script, having a gender neutral and race neutral cast of 1-3 people. Red Bike is incredibly forward-thinking and I would absolutely recommend this script!

"Get on with it." So should any author's direction be. This is Svich's strongest play since 'Guapa' or 'Hide Sky'. Regarding recent, new work, even Caryl Churchill and Conor McPherson might take notes. There are only a handful of writers that would allow this kind of open interpretation to a play's presentation and design. Directors will be hard pressed not to take advantage of it. The words, like Crystal Skillman's, demand not only attention, but your imagination. Most impressive is the simultaneous intelligence and naïveté of the story's kid. I am only allowed 100 words; you, however, have the play.

This play is like a painting that catches your eye in a museum and makes you stop---because it is simultaneously familiar and unfamiliar, simple yet complex, accessible yet layered with meaning. This play of Caridad's is full of imagery and modernist poetry, it evokes for me the kind of American imagery of Norman Rockwell, William Carlos Williams, and Muriel Rukeyser. We learn what America is through the eyes of an eleven year old with a red bike, who could forget all his observations the moment he turns 12. Great read.

RED BIKE is a uniquely timely play with a big imagination that explores the idea of class in modern American society through the eyes of a young child. Like the best of Caridad's work, I was taken by the poetic theatrical language that felt grounded and accessible. I especially love the fact that the play leaves a lot for interpretation (can be cast with any race or gender, and can be a solo show or divided amongst a number of actors).