Humana Festival 2019: The Complete Plays - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1538136368 ISBN 13: 9781538136362

Publisher: Limelight Editions, 2020

Synopsis

The 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 2019: The Complete Plays brings together all five scripts from the 43rd 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 Everybody Black by Dave Harris; The Thin Place by Lucas Hnath; The Corpse Washer, adapted for the stage by Ismail Khalidi and Naomi Wallace, from the novel of the same name by Sinan Antoon; How to Defend Yourself by Liliana Padilla; and We've Come to Believe, a collaboratively-written play by three writers-Kara Lee Corthron, Emily Feldman, and Matthew Paul Olmos.

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Actors Theatre of Louisville, the State Theatre of Kentucky, is the flagship arts organization in the Louisville community. For over four decades, Actors Theatre has been the home of the internationally acclaimed Humana Festival of New American Plays, which has introduced more than 450 plays into the American theatre repertoire and has showcased the work of more than 400 playwrights and ensembles. The Humana Festival is recognized as a crucial incubator for new work and a launchpad for myriad subsequent productions around the country and the world.

Edition details

• Publisher: Limelight Editions
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1538136368
• ISBN 13: 9781538136362
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 382
• Editor: Wegener Amy