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...smaller but no less demanding group of enthusiasts from all over the U.S. and a dozen foreign countries convened in Louisville to search for the future of the American theater. Now in its eighth year, the Humana Festival of New American Plays has helped nurture such authors as Beth Henley and Marsha Norman from early promise to mature achievement. The festival-nine full-length plays in three days, all produced by Jon Tory's Actors Theater of Louisville-continues to solidify its reputation as the theater's most exhilarating rite of spring...
...have to listen hard to catch both the humor and the despair in a mother's complaint on returning from the supermarket: "Why are modern groceries so heavy?" (from Lee Blessing's Independence, a mother-and-daughters drama that plays like Crimes of the Heart without Henley's savory moonshine kick). Often in these works, nothing happens; usually, that is the point. In Horton Foote's Courtship virtually all of the "action," except for one chaste kiss, occurs offstage and is relayed to the audience as a Texas family's gossip. The play...
...Thames River near New London, Conn., it traditionally marks neither the end nor the high point of the schools' seasons. Winning the Eastern Sprint Championship is at least as important as capturing the Harvard-Yale race, and one or both of the teams usually travels to England's Henley Regatta or some other race to close out the season...
Under the coaching of Ted Washburn, never known for going lightly on his rowers, the top boat last year transformed itself from "a disaster" [as Hanson puts it] early in the year to a Henley-caliber crew by the summer. Hanson hopes he can improve his sculling in the same way before the Canadian Olympic trials in May. "I want to see how good I could get in a single," he says, "and the Olympics came along at the right time for me to give it a try... I love this sport, and I love to see myself make progress...
...medal at the world championships last August in Duisburg. West Germany, and sports a litany of crew honors--six times on the U.S. national team, his two Olympic appearances, a 1970 trip to the World Youth Rowing Championships in Greece, and a total of five visits to the Royal Henley Regatta in England Wood definitely is the bettor's pack...