Humana Festival 1994: The Complete Plays - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1880399563 ISBN 13: 9781880399569

Publisher: Smith & Kraus Pub Inc, 1994

Synopsis

The second volume in Smith and Kraus' annual series of plays produced at America's premiere New Play Festival.

For close to two decades, the Humana Festival has been celebrating the genius of American playwrights by presenting an exciting new crop of home-grown plays each year to theatergoers from around the world.

This year's plays include: Julie Johnson by Wendy Hammond, Shotgun by Romulus Linney, Betty The Yeti by Jon Klein, The Survivor: A Cambodian Odyssey by Jon Lipsky, Slavs! (Thinking About the Longstnding Problems of Virtue and Happiness) by Tony Kushner, My Left Breast by Susan Miller, 1969 by Tina Landau, Trip's Cinch by Phyllis Nagy, The Last Time We Saw Her by Jane Anderson, and Stone and Bones by Marion I. McClinton.

About this title

About the Author:

Marisa Smith is the Owner and Publisher of Smith and Kraus, a leading publisher of theater books since 1990. She has edited many books for Smith and Kraus and is the author/playwright of "Book Group" and "The Devine Comedy", recently presented at Eclipse Grange theater by Signal and Noise Productions.

From Booklist:

The big event of the 1994 Humana Festival of the Actors Theatre of Louisville--a major launching pad for new plays and playwrights--was Tony Kushner's one-act Slavs! This intriguing companion to the two-part Angels in America describes with wit and surprising efficiency (as opposed to the epic Angels' languor) the social dislocations brought about by perestroika and the Soviet Union's breakup; it assures Kushner's place among important 1990s playwrights. Other noteworthy entries were Jon Klein's seriocomic Betty the Yeti, about a clash between environmentalists and loggers in the Pacific Northwest; My Left Breast, Susan Miller's autobiographical one-person play about a lesbian mother attempting to raise her son while dealing with breast cancer and the loss of her lover: and The Survivor: A Cambodian Odyssey, Jon Lipsky's dramatization of Dr. Haing Ngor's memoir of surviving Khmer Rouge-ruled Cambodia and enduring the subsequent, surreal adventure of re-creating his experiences in the film The Killing Fields (for which he won an Oscar). Jack Helbig

About this edition

• Publisher: Smith & Kraus Pub Inc
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1880399563
• ISBN 13: 9781880399569
• Binding: Paperback
• Editor: Smith Marisa