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Intro - 0:00

• Tune called Planxty Sir Festus Burke | Randal Bays/fiddle, Chris Smith/tenor banjo, Roger Landes/bouzouki | composition by Turlough O’Carolan, from the album “Coyote Banjo” by Chris Smith

Part I, Practices in Theater - 01:28

• Relating to  Pantalone, commedia dell'arte, and working with masks

Part II, Community in Theater - 32:39

• Relating to Bertolt Brecht and the production of "Mother Courage"

Outro - 01:02:29

• Planxty Sir Festus Burke

Dr. Bill Gelber is an Associate Professor of Theatre who teaches acting, directing, pedagogy, and period styles, including Shakespeare and his contemporaries. He has a Ph.D. in Theatre History from the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied with Oscar Brockett. He has been published in the Brecht Yearbook, Communications of the International Brecht Society, Southern Theatre Journal, Texas Theatre Journal, and Early Modern Literary Studies. His essay, “A Ha in Shakespeare” appears in Shakespeare Expressed: Page, Stage, and Classroom. His book Engaging with Brecht: Making Theatre in the 21st Century is to be published by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama. Dr. Gelber was recently inducted into the Texas Tech University Teaching Academy and is an Integrated Scholar.

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