Caridad Svich takes us inside The House of the Spirits.Isabel Allende’s ‘The House of the Spirits’ at GALA Hispanic Theatre (article on Isabel Allende and Caridad Svich) by David Montgomery, Washington Post, February 8, 2013.
( Press for The House of Spiritsįeature news articles, radio features and podcasts in the US in English language and Spanish language press: 36, edited by Theodore Shank, Department of Theatre and Dance, University of California-San Diego (ISSN 1060-5320, 2009). House is a success, a gift.” Erik Ehn, playwright PublicationĮnglish language version (in draft prior to Colorado New Play Summit at Denver Theatre Center) in international theatre journal TheatreForum Issue No. One of our lead writers is writing at the peak of her form. Here characters and stories continually threaten to spiritualize, yet ultimately remain in their blood.
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She has construed a piece that is respectfully literary, while also affirming her own clear voice the piece is fully theatrical, and Svich does much here to crack the classic problems of the epic on stage – the epic is for her much more than an accumulation of event – it is the risk of the infinite. Her talents and perseverance make her a dreamy match for Allende I can’t imagine a finer adaptor. Her mind is generous and nimble she is capable of subtlety at the highest levels of refinement, and is also inexhaustibly cruel (ice cream is cold as well as sweet) – she is fearless, and will go to every limit in composing an experience. “Like rain when it’s dry and ice cream in the summer – you can’t say no to the writing of Caridad Svich you need it, you deserve it. This new re-imagining of “The House of the Spirits” is a bold and daring theatre piece that captures the force and sensuality of Allende’s vision through Caridad Svich’s unique poetic spirit. The swirling memories, frightening and amusing, lyrical and fantastic, illuminate the stage as Alba records her family’s history and ultimately finds the strength to recover her own story. The play is told from the sensorial point of view of the youngest of three generation of women, Alba, who is held as the play opens, in a torture room by the government. When Isabel Allende’s novel first appeared on the international literary scene, it was widely heralded as a feminist response to Gabriel García Marquez’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude” it continues to this day to captivate readers across the world as it has been translated in over 20 languages.Ĭharting the rise and fall of the Trueba family in an un-named Latin American country (reminiscent of Chile), Caridad Svich’s play spans the 1920s through the 1970s, as the country moves through enormous sociopolitical changes that culminate in a devastating dictatorship. “The House of the Spirits,” published in 1982, is a National Bestseller and Isabel Allende’s debut novel which catapulted her to literary stardom.
She has a very original, very special kind of mind. She recreated the atmosphere and spirit of the book.
Listed as Number One Theatre Production of 2010 by the Denver Post.Winner of five 2010 Ovation Awards from The Denver Post including Best Production.Winner of three 2009 Premios ACE (Latin ACE Award) including Best Dramatic Production.Winner of seven 2009 HOLA Awards including Outstanding Achievement in Playwriting.Winner of the 2011 American Theatre Critics Association Francesca Primus Prize.Ī play by Caridad Svich, based on the novel by Isabel Allende
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