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...festival (half of whose million-dollar annual budget is underwritten by the Humana Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Humana Inc., the Louisville-based health-care company) is not exactly a secret. "What we've tried to be," says Jon Jory, the ATL's guiding light for 27 years, "is a freshet for the American repertoire." Among the 224 new plays in the fest's 20 years are two Pulitzer Prize winners, The Gin Game and Crimes of the Heart, as well as Agnes of God, Extremities and off-Broadway's current Below the Belt. And however perilous the playwright...
Louisville's house star is the secretive, pseudonymous Jane Martin, who made her rep with the 1982 Talking With--11 trenchant monologues for women--and has since written eight plays for the ATL. Some think Martin is Jory, perhaps working with other writers; one actor who starred in a Martin play impishly hinted that the real author is George Stephanopoulos. This year's offering was Jack and Jill, an intimate, panoramic look at modern sexual inequality. The play neatly twists audience sympathies on a volatile subject. So did Martin's 1993 abortion play Keely and Du, which was nominated...
This technology and the issue of accessibility have had many other interesting side-effects as well. For example, talking computers have decreased the necessity for blind people to learn Braille. Voloudakis stated that the Braille printer at the ATL was last used two years ago and has not been used since, simply because most students take advantage of the available technology...
...fact, the ATL has been negotiating with book publishers to give it textbooks in electronic form to save the time and labor required to scan and convert textbooks itself. But publishers have balked at the idea, primarily because they fear people will widely distribute these books electronically...
...graphical interface is pretty much useless for the blind. How does a computer tell a blind person to move the mouse pointer over an icon and double-click? One way the ATL has dealt with this problem has been to suggest that students use older programs with textual rather than graphical interfaces...