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Bogart, Kazan, Mee, Wallace, Yew, et al. Set for Humana Festival

Charles Mee (© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)

The 33rd Annual Humana Festival of New American Plays, to be held March 1-April 11 at the Actors Theatre of Louisville in Kentucky, has announced its lineup of selections.

The six full-length plays to be presented are Wild Blessings: A Celebration of Wendell Berry, about the poet and ecological visionary, adapted by Marc Masterston and Adrien-Alice Hansel and directed by Masterston; Zoe Kazan's Absalom, about a family party for a literary giant that's interrupted by an unexpected guest, directed by Giovanna Sardelli; Charles Mee's Under Construction, directed by Anne Bogart and co-created and performed by the SITI Company; Alison Moore's Slasher, about an aspiring actress whose latest film role upsets her mother, directed by Josh Hecht; Ameriville, a new play about Hurricane Katrina written by the group UNIVERSES and directed by Chay Yew; and Naomi Wallace's The Hard Weather Boating Party, about three men plotting a crime, directed by Jo Bonney.

In addition, the Festival will present the comic anthology Brink! co-written by Lydia Diamond, Kristoffer Diaz, Greg Kotis, Deborah Zoe Laufer, Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, and Deborah Stein, directed by Sean Daniels, and performed by the 2008-2009 Actors Theatre Apprentice Company.

 

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