Archipelago

by Caridad Svich

ARCHIPELAGO by Caridad Svich is a memory play, a love story, and a dream of life. This play for two actors premiered at Lighthouse Poole Centre for the Arts in England and later at Son of Semele Ensemble in Los Angeles in the USA. This edition is published with Santa Catalina Editions and NoPassport.

110 pages, Paperback

Published February 22, 2018

Reviews

[Sheldon Williams · Rating 4 out of 5]

An incredibly moving, and beautifully tragic play about how love’s ability to shape our memory of someone we hold most dear can be felt even in the midst of chaos and war. The ambiguous nature of the setting (although based on a few countries mentioned in the play it seems as though it’s somewhere in Europe at the very least) allows for you to ground yourself to the simplicity of being anywhere with the person you love transcending space and time; which conceptually is something I myself wholeheartedly believe. The vivid imagery painted with poetic monologues, blended with sharp, realistic exchanges between the only two characters in this story made this a play I will definitely return to in the future. The story between “H” and “B” is told in a variety of ways, ranging from in-person exchanges to individual recollection and years of time between as both of them are not truly themselves without the other. Abstract and often relatable, there are many powerful meanings to be discerned from Archipelago.