Caridad Svich

"a world that tolerates and passively promotes one harm, via corporate malfeasance and willful state sanctioned negligence, will bear and/or lead to others."

dear theatre, in the weeds

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overheard: "her career is online notoriety."

Edna O’Brien to Alan Rickman, 2000, on Harold Pinter - ‘The trouble with Harold is he’s sewn up all his wounds, now all he can write are these little things.’

sadness

its astonishing how banal and purposefully apolitical much of the transatlantic theatre is or what is produced

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Actually think Morgan's conception of "singing of how the times darken" even more pertinent and precise in describing what I'd like to see, say, the theatre do, that we're not seeing it do enough

At a local arts conference a few months ago, people spent all day saying things like “uncertain times… divided world… fractured society”. When I asked why people keep using euphemisms, rather than saying genocide, fascism or climate collapse, was met with lots of staring at the floor.

speaking the truth plain is what we need!

i have a cycle of plays about these times!

Sometimes feel like we're on the precipice of - or already deep in - something really massive, and yet culturally floating along as if none of it is happening, as if in a dream

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we need the neo-modernist movement to kick in

Recall a recent conversation with a friend about how we've all become accustomed to just absorbing our little dose of human horror on our phones and then carrying on with whatever. In the same vein, are we really seeing an art world, or a theatre, that is singing about the dark times?

i am writing abt!!

me. every day

Motto In the dark times, will there also be singing? Yes, there will be singing about the dark times.

This Brecht poem is quoted a lot, often to invoke the indomitable enduring spirit of the arts, keeping on keeping on, a light in the darkness, and so on. But it often feels like the important word is being overlooked, and that's "about"

louder!!

dear theatre, once was real

here in live music concert on demand. Harry Styles. One Night in Manchester. @netflix.com

its horrid

its so brilliant

for as many times the Tom Holland dance battle video clip of Umbrella has been posted over the years and yet Hollywood still hasnt given us a full length dance musical film with him as star

"a world that tolerates and passively promotes one harm, via corporate malfeasance and willful state sanctioned negligence, will bear and/or lead to others."

dear theatre, i still love you, even if you dont think so

wise Jolene

loving the plague theatre's failure

today in pocket theatre, i write abt how, against all evidence, ppl stopped worrying and started loving the plague. open.substack.com/pub/csvich/p...

bless her

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