STAND

by Caridad Svich

2019 Finalist New Works Festival, Kitchen Dog Theater, Dallas.

STAND is an acoustic electric poem of womxn rage, defiance and ancient power. STAND begins on the day when another womxn from an unnamed village is assaulted. Their name is Cassandra. A chorus gathers ‘round in support of them as they all discover ways in which to rise above collective trauma. This is a play-oratorio. It is also a play-drum. or...

2019 Finalist New Works Festival, Kitchen Dog Theater, Dallas.

STAND is an acoustic electric poem of womxn rage, defiance and ancient power. STAND begins on the day when another womxn from an unnamed village is assaulted. Their name is Cassandra. A chorus gathers ‘round in support of them as they all discover ways in which to rise above collective trauma. This is a play-oratorio. It is also a play-drum. or simply, a smash-all-patriarchies text for performance. May be performed with a minimum of three actors (two in chorus, one lead) in its barest form, or five actors or upwards of 10 or more. The play features the song "no hosanna" by composer O-Lan Jones and lyricist Caridad Svich. Described by Simon Stephens as a "beautiful poem of a play: savage and elegant and furious by turns."

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  • Kitchen Dog Theater: STAND by Caridad Svich
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    We are pleased to support this play! It was a Finalist for the 2019 New Works Festival at Kitchen Dog Theater in Dallas, Texas.

    We are pleased to support this play! It was a Finalist for the 2019 New Works Festival at Kitchen Dog Theater in Dallas, Texas.

    ”
  • Mathilde Dratwa: STAND by Caridad Svich
    “

    A highly theatrical play-poem of fury and healing. A play that examines the individual burden of assault while reminding us of the importance of community in dealing with trauma - a narrative that is so often missing. A brave play which feels both ancient and of this very precise moment.

    A highly theatrical play-poem of fury and healing. A play that examines the individual burden of assault while reminding us of the importance of community in dealing with trauma - a narrative that is so often missing. A brave play which feels both ancient and of this very precise moment.

    ”
  • Martha Wade Steketee: STAND by Caridad Svich
    “

    Caridad Svich's STAND draws from contemporary culture, classical Greek dramatic structure, and takes on gender and power in the form of a chorus that unpacks individual and group oppression. I heard a terrific reading of this play in late 2018 voiced by three women that evoked the world of women through millennia, and specific events in a murky current time. A story in prose poetry of the "brutes" and the "brutalized" that shines with righteous hope.

    Caridad Svich's STAND draws from contemporary culture, classical Greek dramatic structure, and takes on gender and power in the form of a chorus that unpacks individual and group oppression. I heard a terrific reading of this play in late 2018 voiced by three women that evoked the world of women through millennia, and specific events in a murky current time. A story in prose poetry of the "brutes" and the "brutalized" that shines with righteous hope.

    ”
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Development History

  • Reading, Dramatists Guild, 2018

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