Every year the annual Humana Festival of new plays at the Actors" Theatre of Louisville, Kentucky, continues to grow in scope and influence. This fourth collection of play scripts covers just the class of 1996, and still manages to include Naomi Wallace"s One Flea Spare, which had a run at the New York Shakespeare, ushered in by a New York Times magazine article; Jack and Jill, which won the American Theatre Critics Association citation as outstanding play of 1997; plus Anne Bogart"s Going, Going, Gone; Jimmy Breslin"s Contract With Jackie; Tony Kushner"s Reverse Transcription; Craig Lucas"s What I Meant Was; and John Patrick Shanley"s Kissing Christine; among others. This book is a primer on contemporary playwrighting.