Tangled up in blue: political trepidation translates to unfocused theatre at Humana Festival.(Humana Festival of New American Plays)
American Theatre, July, 2005 by Hart, Sarah
> In addition to a roster of six new full-length plays and four 10-minute ones, the impeccably run Humana Festival's 29th incarnation featured a collaboratively written exercise subtitled On Democracy and Other Fictions, Featuring Patriotism Acts and Blue Songs from a Red State. It could have been a subtitle for the festival, mounted in March and April at Kentucky's Actors Theatre of Louisville--except that the razor-sharp artists responsible for Uncle Sam's Satiric Spectacular (Greg Allen, Sheila Callaghan, Bridget Carpenter, Eric Coble, Richard Dresser, Michael Friedman and Hilly ...
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