Humana Festival 2013

Humana Festival 2013
Author: Amy Wegener
Publisher: Playscripts, Incorporated
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781623840020

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A collection of all eleven scripts from Actor's Theatre of Louisville's 2013 Humana Festival of New American Plays.

Gnit

Gnit
Author: Will Eno
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Total Pages: 59
Release: 2014-06-23
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 155936789X

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“The marvel of Mr. Eno’s new version is how closely it tracks the original while also being, at every moment and unmistakably, a Will Eno play. After climbing the craggy peaks of Ibsen’s daunting play, Mr. Eno has brought down from its dizzying heights a surprising crowd-pleasing (if still strange) work.” — Charles Isherwood, New York Times “Gnit is classic Will Eno. By that I mean I was thrilled by it.” — Kris Vire, TimeOut Chicago “If ever a play made me want to be a better person, this is it.” — Bob Fischbach, Omaha World-Herald Peter Gnit, a funny enough, but so-so specimen of humanity, makes a lifetime of bad decisions on the search for his True Self. This is a rollicking yet cautionary tale about (among other things) how the opposite of love is laziness. Gnit is a faithful, unfaithful and willfully American misreading of Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt (a nineteenth-century Norwegian play), written by Will Eno, who has never been to Norway. Will Eno’s most recent plays include The Open House (Signature Theatre, New York, 2014; Obie Award, Lucille Lortel Award for Best Play) and The Realistic Joneses (Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven, 2012; Broadway, 2014). His play Middletown received the Horton Foote Prize and Thom Pain (based on nothing) was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize. Mr. Eno lives Brooklyn.

A Doll's House, Part 2

A Doll's House, Part 2
Author: Lucas Hnath
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2018-02-07
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 082223744X

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In the final scene of Ibsen’s 1879 groundbreaking masterwork, Nora Helmer makes the shocking decision to leave her husband and children, and begin a life on her own. This climactic event—when Nora slams the door on everything in her life—instantly propelled world drama into the modern age. In A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2, many years have passed since Nora’s exit. Now, there’s a knock on that same door. Nora has returned. But why? And what will it mean for those she left behind?

Humana Festival 2018

Humana Festival 2018
Author: Amy Wegener
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2020-04-15
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 153813635X

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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 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.

Red Speedo

Red Speedo
Author: Lucas Hnath
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2017-03-16
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0822235722

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Ray’s swum his way to the eve of the Olympic trials. If he makes the team, he’ll get a deal with Speedo. If he gets a deal with Speedo, he’ll never need a real job. So when someone’s stash of performance-enhancing drugs is found in the locker room fridge, threatening the entire team’s Olympic fate, Ray has to crush the rumors or risk losing everything. A sharp and stylish play about swimming, survival of the fittest, and the American dream of a level playing field—or of leveling the field yourself.

The Christians

The Christians
Author: Lucas Hnath
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 93
Release: 2015-01-01
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0822231980

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THE STORY: Twenty years ago, Pastor Paul's church was nothing more than a modest storefront. Now he presides over a congregation of thousands, with classrooms for Sunday School, a coffee shop in the lobby, and a baptismal font as big as a swimming pool. Today should be a day of celebration. But Paul is about to preach a sermon that will shake the foundations of his church's belief. A big-little play about faith in America—and the trouble with changing your mind.

We're Gonna Be Okay

We're Gonna Be Okay
Author: Basil Kreimendahl
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 78
Release: 2018-12-06
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0822238071

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During the Cuban Missile Crisis, two average American families build a slapdash bomb shelter on their shared property line. With nuclear warfare looming, they wonder: Is it the end? The end of baseball…and table manners…and macramé? But as they fret about the fall of civilization, they start to worry that something more personal is at stake. A slyly hilarious, compassionate look at anxiety in America, WE’RE GONNA BE OKAY is about finding the courage to face who we are—and who we want to be.

Little Children Dream of God

Little Children Dream of God
Author: Jeff Augustin
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2015-01-01
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0822233576

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THE STORY: On a balmy night in Miami, soon-to-be mother Sula floats ashore on a car tire. Having survived the perilous journey to escape her native Haiti, Sula is determined to forge a better life in America for her unborn son. She finds safety in an apartment building dedicated to sheltering refugees, joining a diverse community of immigrants, each with their own unique dreams and dilemmas. But even though the life she has hoped for seems within reach, Sula knows she can’t outrun her demons forever. LITTLE CHILDREN DREAM OF GOD is a darkly lovely drama about learning to start a new life by facing the one you left behind.

The Open House

The Open House
Author: Will Eno
Publisher: Oberon Books Limited
Total Pages: 63
Release: 2014
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781783191222

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An award-winning new play from acclaimed playwright Will Eno.

Hillary and Clinton

Hillary and Clinton
Author: Lucas Hnath
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2019-12-17
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0822233851

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In an alternate universe light-years away from our own is a planet called Earth. It looks a lot like our Earth, except it’s slightly different. And living on this other Earth is a woman named Hillary. Hillary is trying to become the president of a country called the United States of America. It’s 2008 and she’s campaigning in a state called New Hampshire. She’s not doing very well in the polls. She needs more money to keep the campaign going, so she calls her husband for help. He offers her a deal, a tough deal, but when she gets his help, she gets more than she bargained for. You may think you know where this story is going, but you don’t. After all, the play takes place in an alternate universe where anything can happen.