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The following articles appeared in Actors Theatre's subscriber newsletter prior to the 1999 Humana Festival

THE T(EXT) SHIRT PROJECT
Why didn’t Gutenberg think of this? Print the text of an entire play on a t-shirt so that anyone can "perform" the play simply by wearing the shirt into the streets for the masses to read. Street theatre or fashion statement? Chic. de la Mode. Livin large.

MERCHANDISING by David Henry Hwang
A disillusioned filmmaker and his friend ponder the marriage between commercialism and art.

AND THE TORSO EVEN MORE SO by Tony Kushner

STUFFED SHIRTS by Jane Martin
With haiku precision, Martin reveals how T-shirts can help a couple overcome their differences on politics, the environment and sex.

MANIFESTO by Naomi Wallace
A Ruined Body and the Spectre of class struggle attempt to find common ground in this poetic, symbolist drama.

TO T OR NOT TO T by Wendy Wasserstein
The world’s master playwrights unite in their search for the perfect T-shirt slogan.

THE FEZ by Mac Wellman
Dwarves, red fezzes, and a ceremonial wagon take the stage when Something Strange happens.

T-shirt plays cost $20 each and can be purchased at the Actors Theatre of Louisville box office beginning Feb. 23, or at the Humana Festival bookstore on the weekends of March 20-21 and 27-28.

The play will be performed at opening performances and on all Saturdays and some Sundays in March.