Humana Festival 1995: The Complete Plays [Paperback]

Marisa Smith (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 188039992X | ISBN-13: 978-1880399927 | Publication Date: January 1995

The third 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: Tough Choices for the New Century by Jane Anderson, Your Obituary is a Dance by Benard Cummings, Head On by Elizabeth Dewberry, Below the Belt by Richard Dresser, Beast on the Moon by Richard Kalinoski, July 7, 1994 by Donald Margulies, Middle-Aged White Guys by Jane Martin, Trudy Blue by Marsha Norman, Cloud Tectonics by Jose Rivera, Between the Lines by Regina Taylor, and Helen At Risk by Dana Yeaton.

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

This year's plays from the Annual Humana Festival of New American Plays are somewhat disappointing. Many, though truly entertaining, seem better suited to TV than to the stage. Even Jane Anderson's witty jab at middle-class paranoia, Tough Choices for the New Century, feels like a sophisticated, if bitter, sitcom. Nevertheless, a few plays are truly inspired--Richard Dresser's cutting send-up of cutthroat corporate culture, Below the Belt, and Don Margulies' by turns moving and hilarious account of a day in the life of a woman doctor, July 7, 1994, for instance. Further, JoseRivera's transcendent and beautiful, magical realist Cloud Tectonics, about an ordinary Latino who falls in love just when it looks like the world really will end, more than makes up for the several shallow, glib, shorter plays that fill out the anthology. Jack Helbig

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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 370 pages
• Publisher: Smith & Kraus Pub Inc (January 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 188039992X
• ISBN-13: 978-1880399927
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,690,710 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)