Petri Dish Circus

The following video (by MicrobeWorld, grabbed from SciVee) portrays an interview to Mary Resing, artistic director for Active Cultures, a theater company from Maryland, US. She talks about Petri Dish Circus, a play inspired by the extraordinary, classic book Microbe Hunters by Paul de Kruif. The video includes some excerpts from the actual performance.

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Links:

• Petri Dish Circus (MWV12), the video, as available at SciVee. Submitted by MicrobeWorld.
• 'Petri Dish Circus': It's Got a Few Bugs. The play is reviewed at washingtonpost.com.
• Active Cultures, "the vernacular theatre of Maryland."
• Microbe Hunters at Everything2.com.
  
• The Microbe Hunters: The Death Fighter. Read here a Microbe Hunters chapter dedicated to Koch, at Literature Excerpts.
• Microbe Hunters revisited, by William C. Summers. Internatl Microbiol (1998) 1, 65-68.
• Paul de Kruif at Wikipedia.
• The Life and Legacy of Paul de Kruif, by Robin Marantz Henig.