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Book SynopsisThe Humana Festival of New American Plays has been a leading home for extraordinary playwrights and their imaginations for more than four decades, making Actors Theatre of Louisville one of the nation’s preeminent powerhouses for new play development. For six weeks every spring, Louisville exerts a gravitational pull on producers and theatre lovers from around the country, who travel from far and wide for the adventure of seeing a diverse slate of fully-produced new plays. Many Humana Festival plays have gone on to garner awards and subsequent productions, making a sustained impact on the international dramatic repertoire. Humana Festival 2018: The Complete Plays brings together all six scripts from the 42nd annual cycle of world premieres, featuring a remarkable array of work by some of the most exciting voices in the American theatre. This anthology makes the Humana Festival plays available to an even wider audience, allowing readers to experience the collision of perspectives, styles and stories that makes the festival such an invigorating celebration of the art form. This compilation features the full-length plays Do You Feel Anger? by Mara Nelson-Greenberg, Evocation to Visible Appearance by Mark Schultz, we, the invisibles by Susan Soon He Stanton, Marginal Loss by Deborah Stein, and God Said This by Leah Nanako Winkler, as well as You Across from Me, a collaboratively-written play by four writers—Jaclyn Backhaus, Dipika Guha, Brian Otaño, and Jason Gray Platt.
Trade ReviewThis year’s Humana Festival of New American Plays was groundbreaking. Inclusion was big this year, with virtually all the plays representing refreshingly nontraditional perspectives. -- Rick Pender, Cincinnati CityBeat
In its 42nd season, the Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville featured an exceptional lineup of nine playwrights with six pieces in rep.... Actors Theatre programmed a stellar lineup of probing, formally unique, disparate, extraordinary new plays for its audiences. -- Kate Bergstrom, Santa Barbara Independent
This Festival has accomplished what theater does better than any other medium: It has offered a constant stream of epiphanies about authentic lived experiences that don’t merely tell us stories. If we’re receptive, they open us up to see the world through the minds of the writers. -- Marty Rosen, Louisville Eccentric Observer
This year’s lineup of world premieres, with women being six of the festival’s nine writers...pointed the way to the female future, happening now. -- Allison Considine, American Theatre
Table of ContentsDo You Feel Anger? by Mara Nelson-Greenberg Evocation to Visible Appearance by Mark Schultz we, the invisibles by Susan Soon He Stanton Marginal Loss by Deborah Stein God Said This by Leah Nanako Winkler You Across from Me by Jaclyn Backhaus, Dipika Guha, Brian Otaño, and Jason Gray Platt
