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<\/a>Cornel Gabara, director of the plays \u201cFox Hunt\u201d and \u201cStrip Tease,\u201d worked with student actors Emily Werner, left, and Kaitlyn Beacom during rehearsal.<\/p><\/div>Using musical numbers, comic action and ridiculous imagery, Gabara\u2019s concept for the two plays is designed to provoke laughter while critiquing political and social folly. <\/P><\/p>\n
The plays, which will be shown back to back in performance, open Friday, Oct. 11.<\/p>\n
Gabara, associate professor of theatre, is taking advantage of each play’s comedy to tie their themes together. The multi-character play \u201cFox Hunt\u201d focuses on the social and political foibles of the masses, while \u201cStrip Tease\u201d will spotlight these issues in the lives of individuals. <\/p>\n
Through comic critique, both plays will spotlight the social and political quirks of 21st-century American. Audiences likely will find the ludicrous situations that arise in these two plays all too familiar.<\/p>\n
Gabara starred in a 2004 production of Mrozek\u2019s \u201cStrip Tease\u201d at the famed La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in New York City. By bringing \u201cFox Hunt\u201d and \u201cStrip Tease\u201d to the UT stage, he makes a vivid and fantastical return to a world he knows firsthand: Mrozek\u2019s dramatic universe of the funny and the grotesque.<\/p>\n
\u201cFox Hunt\u201d and \u201cStrip Tease\u201d will be performed with an intermission from Friday, Oct. 11, through Sunday, Oct. 13, and from Thursday, Oct. 17, through Sunday, Oct. 20. All performances are at 7:30 p.m., except Sunday performances, which are at 2 p.m. <\/p>\n
Following the opening night performance, there will be a free reception and discussion where the audience can meet the director, designers and cast, and ask questions about the shows.<\/p>\n