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Podcast: Day for Night with Caridad Svich
Episode: S4, Ep 48: scenes 1-12 from THRUSH by Caridad Svich
Description: In this episode I read from scenes 1-12 of my play with songs THRUSH, which was originally produced at Salvage Vanguard Theater in Austin, Texas in 2006.
THRUSH: Scenes from war and after. Slaughter songs for broken times. A love story and vaudeville of the far and near country. A young woman walks the fields. A young man trails her. The ghost songs of the fallen rise in ballads, hymns, blues and swing as if torn from the roots of mad sorrow.
Content warning: the play deals with themes and images of war crimes against humanity...