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<i>Humana Festival 2012: The Complete Plays</i> brings together all ten scripts from the 2012 Humana Festival of New American Plays, the 36th annual cycle of world premiere productions staged at Actors Theatre of Louisville. This unique compilation features an exceptional array of work by some of the most exciting new voices in the American theatre, from a group of suburban kids in the late 80s who forge a cultural identity through hip hop (<i>How We Got On</i>), to a rich, dying woman who suspects her nurse is being paid off to expedite her death (<i>Death Tax</i>), to a 500-year-old Austrian vampire struggling with the existential grind of modern living (<i>Michael von Siebenburg Melts Through the Floorboards</i>). This original and diverse collection of plays is a must-have for anyone seeking fresh, daring, and compelling theater.<br> <br> Includes the plays <i>The Ballad of 423 and 424</i> by Nicholas C. Pappas, <i>Death Tax</i> by Lucas Hnath, <i>The Dungeons and the Dragons</i> by Kyle John Schmidt, <i>Eat Your Heart Out</i> by Courtney Baron, <i>Hero Dad</i> by Laura Jacqmin, <i>The Hour of Feeling</i> by Mona Mansour, <i>How We Got On</i> by Idris Goodwin, <i>Michael von Siebenburg Melts Through the Floorboards</i> by Greg Kotis, <i>Oh, Gastronomy!</i> by Michael Golamco, Carson Kreitzer, Steve Moulds, Tanya Saracho, and Matt Schatz, <i>The Veri**on Play</i> by Lisa Kron