Full Description
JARMAN (all this maddening beauty) and Other Plays is a collection of three radically poetic works for live performance by OBIE award-winning playwright Caridad Svich. The playtexts include a lyrical meditation on the legacy of iconic queer artist Derek Jarman, a meditation on displacement and human suffering (Carthage/Cartagena) and an intimately operatic reflection on Penelope and Odysseus (The Orphan Sea). Accompanied by scholarly essays placing the plays in context, this book showcases the beautiful strangeness and profound resistance in Svich's work.
Contents
Beautiful Strangeness: The Plays of Caridad Svich
Kevin Brown
'When I think of him, I think of angels': Introducing JARMAN (all this maddening beauty)
Theron Schmidt
Performing JARMAN (all this maddening beauty)
John Moletress
JARMAN (all this maddening beauty)
Caridad Svich
Laying Siege to Carthage
Pedro de Senna
Carthage/Cartagena: when I looked up I looked for something (call it hope)
Caridad Svich
On the Act of Regarding Another: Some Thoughts on Live Performance, Silence, and Fragility
Caridad Svich
The Orphan Sea
Caridad Svich
