Teatro Paraguas to Present UPON THE FRAGILE SHOW

Teatro Paraguas joins the line-up of worldwide organizations that will present readings of 2012 OBIE Award-winning playwright Caridad Svich's new play Upon the Fragile Shore. This work of intertwining monologues explores human rights and environmental issues around the world especially in relationship to human-made tragedies and their aftermath. These readings are an initiative of NoPassport (www.nopassport.org) for Human Rights International reading scheme. The play centers on stories from the United States, Nigeria, Syria, Malaysia, sub-Sahara, and Venezuela.

Teatro Paraguas's action will directed by Argos MacCallum with a cast of Jonathan Harrell, MK Mendoza, Nicole Phelps, and Roxanne Tapia at Teatro Paraguas Studio, 3205 Calle Marie in Santa Fe. The overall reading scheme is action is a co-production between NoPassport theatre alliance (www.nopassport.org), Jody Christopherson, (The Skype Show, New York Theatre Review, http://newyorktheatrereview.blogspot.com/), and Missing Bolts Productions (www.missingbolts.com).

Additional theaters and venues that will be presenting the play include: Ensemble Theater of Norway, Ion Theatre (San Diego, CA). Road Theatre (Los Angeles, CA); Power Street Theatre (Philadelphia, PA); Theatre Simple (Seattle, WA); Teater Albatross (Stockholm, Sweden); Theater Emory (Atlanta, GA); Cara Mia Theatre (Dallas, TX); Great Plains Theatre Conference (Omaha, NE); Teatro Diablo and ASU-Tempe (Tempe, AZ); Theater Alliance (Washington D.C.), National Institute of Dramatic Art (Sydney, Australia), Alameda Theatre (Toronto, CA), University of Pretoria (South Africa) Dept of Theatre, and Baruch College (NYC), Missing Bolts (Digital Film Action, NYC), CalArts (California); Colectivo Teatral Nuevo Mexico in conjunction with National Hispanic Cultural Center's Siembra: Latino Theatre Festival (Albuquerque, NM), Carthage College (Kenosha, WI); and alumni reading at New Dramatists (NYC). Additional presenting venues will be announced in the near future.

The play is based on an earlier short play And so it is commissioned by New York Madness. Upon the Fragile Shore is a play with 16 characters, played by 4 actors, that focuses on human rights and environmental issues around the world especially in relationship to human-made tragedies and their aftermath. It is the third play in Caridad Svich's trilogy of plays addressing national issues/global concerns, that include Upon the Fragile Shore, This Thing of Ours and The Orphan Sea (commissioned and to be produced by University of Missouri-Columbia, fall 2014). Svich's other plays include; The Way of Water, Spark, 12 Ophelias, Iphigenia...a rave fable, and The House of the Spirits, based on the novel by Isabel Allende. Her American Quartet of plays; Guapa, The Way of Water, Spark, and Hide Sky sustained global schemes in 2012. Spark premieres September 2014 at Theater Alliance in Washington D.C.

For more information about Caridad Svich's Upon the Fragile Shore or how to participate in joining the reading scheme via live reading or digital video please visit http://www.nopassport.org/upon-fragile-shore-nopassport-human-rights-reading-scheme