Humana Festival 1997: The Complete Plays [Paperback]

M. Dixon (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1997 | ISBN-10: 1575251140 | ISBN-13: 978-1575251141

The fifth volume in Smith and Kraus' annual series of plays produced at America's premiere New Play Festival. The plays in this volume include: Lighting Up the Two-Year Old by Benjie Aerenson, Misreadings by Neena Beber, Private Eyes by Steven Dietz, Gun-shy by Richard Dresser, Polaroid Stories by Naomi Iizuka, Waterbabies by Adam LeFevre, Stars by Romulus Linney, In Her Sight by Carol Mack, and Icarus by Edwin Sanchez.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

The Humana Festival, in its 21st year at The Actors' Theater in Louisville, Kentucky, is one of the nation's premier venues for new plays and both new and well-known playwrights. The festival screened 2900 new scripts to produce these nine works in 1997. Ranging from realism to fantasy, from history to myth, from social commentary to expressions of personal pain, the three short and six evening-length plays are all fiercely actor-centered, and all have a strong comic thread despite topics and treatments that in the end are quite serious. Here, comedy is not so much a release in celebration as a way to create mounting tension. Recommended for both public and academic libraries.?Thomas E. Luddy, Salem State Coll., Mass.
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Review

..it had regulars who write in the stripped-down, slightly ironic, realistic style that festival favors. -- Booklist, December 1997

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Product Details

• Paperback: 356 pages
• Publisher: Smith & Kraus Pub Inc (November 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1575251140
• ISBN-13: 978-1575251141
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,407,276 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Steven Dietz wins!, May 25, 2000

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This review is from: Humana Festival 1997: The Complete Plays (Paperback)

If you enjoy theater and reading plays, this is a good choice for you. But the best author in this group is Steven Dietz who also wrote a version of Dracula based on Bram Stoker's. The facinating story he weaves does just that -- weaves you through so many different senarios that you almost fly into the next seamlessly. Pick up this book to satisfy your hunger for good theater.