interview Archives - Ivy Alvarez

Disturbance, the musical

June 3, 2019 | Disturbance, interview

DISTURBANCE, a musical scored by Tony Award-winning producer Mark Ferris and based on Ivy Alvarez’s verse novel that explores the impact of domestic violence, premiered at Musicasa in Tokyo, running from 2 July to 4 July 2019.

Please visit the website to learn more, including a full interview with Ms Alvarez. Here’s an excerpt:

How does it feel to see your work adapted for the stage?

Incredibly surreal! That this could be a possibility for my poetry is not something I could have foreseen. Truly, it’s a thrill and privilege.

Read the rest here.

Below are rehearsal photos from the show.

Media and blog coverage

Interview with Shayna Magnuson
Metropolis Japan
Karen Pauley // Celtic Star
Tokyo Community News
Sheepdog Theatre
British Chamber of Commerce in Japan’s Acumen
Tokyo Weekender
New Zealand Society of Authors
Japan Times
The Japan News
Australian Embassy, Japan (originally 2-4 July 2019)

Spotlight interview and poem

September 6, 2017 | interview, publications

As 2017 Auckland City Chair for National Flash Fiction Day, Ivy Alvarez shares highlights from the event, her thoughts on fiction, and her poem, “Horse-drawn slave”, on Flash Frontier.

Ivy Alvarez

Ivy Alvarez interviews Conchitina Cruz for Cordite

August 1, 2017 | interview

Described as “a super and incredibly prescient interview“, Ivy Alvarez asks Conchitina Cruz about poetry, politics and the Philippines during a time of turmoil and bloodshed.

Five Questions

December 22, 2016 | interview

Please tell us about the making of “Langit ang buhay.”

Outside my writing attic is a small balcony, with wood palings ranged all around, and I noticed a hole from which a nail had fallen out. So in I go, into the hole, towards the poem.

This poem forms part of a series that responds to Filipino idiomatic expressions. There are many of these. It will probably take me forever.

Elizabeth Onusko Cafferkey asks Five Questions of Ivy Alvarez, for Foundry.