humana festival of new america plays 2012 reviews

i saw six plays this year: the hour of feeling, death tax, michael von siebenburg melts through the floorboards, oh, gastronomy!, the veri**on play and how we got on.  overall i would consider this collection of plays the second best i've seen in the four years that i've attended the festival.  i was also happy to see such a wide variety topics in the plays as opposed to the last two years where the overriding theme was male homosexuality and each year it seemed like the directors and/or writers competed to see who could edgier starting with the abundance of live dude dick i saw two years ago and escalating to full-fledged cock-in-ass last year.  rather than reviewing every play in a single post, im going to write about each individually since i don't know how long it will take me to get through them all and i want to publish my thoughts on the ones that really stick out in my mind while the memory is fresh