Fugitive Pieces by Caridad Svich

"Caridad's impressive language is full of poetry with a grounded concrete quality that reminds me of the wonderful rootedness of William Carlos Williams. In the dramatic rules of the Svich universe everything is possible."

"The play challenges its audience with self-mutilation, sexual exploitation, and raging violence, but Ms. Svich redeems them through her understanding and compassion, and suggests the entire world might be redeemed in just that way."

"Svich's play is the kind that leaves afterimages on the back of your eyelids that won't easily go away after you leave the theater. Even after you close your eyes, they persist, insist, insinuate themselves."

"Caridad Svich's brutal and violently poetic play with songs is unsettling. You just might find yourself looking to catch a glimpse of someone inside the next time a train car rolls by."