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Article: A Mixtape about faith: Humana playwrights pose the question: What do you believe in?(CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK)(Humana Festival of New American Plays )(Theater review)
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- American Theatre
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- July 1, 2008
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This review begins in the middle. I am in love (I think) I've come upon what seems to me one of the most piercing, ambitious and poetically expansive new plays of this globally conscious century--but it's difficult to share the depth of my emotional and intellectual excitement. Most of the literary agents, producers, critics, and media types in attendance at the March marathon weekend of the Humana Festival of New American Plays in Louisville, Ky., are too hyped up about the other five plays--more straight-up, traditional works--on the festival menu. Maybe the play that has me in thrall, this self-critical narrative being spun by Marc Bamuthi Joseph in the break/s, is too ...