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* J ? IlCdUCi By Doug Jolley ewntcock Stuff Wrltvr USC. The place where ideas are born? Well, maybe some of them. It all began on a cold night last December. "I was looking for a new direction for the nrotact. and one night when I was reading an enormous buzzer went off in my head, because I knew I had found what I was really looking for." And so was born a unique pilot program which may have national implications if successful. The sneaker is Patti Gillesoie. chairman of the Department of Theatre and Speech, and she was talking about the department's use of a reader's theatre to reach drug and alcohol abusers. The project will attempt to reach teenagers and senior citizens as primary target audiences. It will not focus on current users because it's felt there would be no major uapact on this group, Gillespie said. INSTEAD, IT will try to reach people who are currently experimenting with drugs and alcohol and those who have not yet experimented with them. The I project will try to suggest reasons why experimentation turns into addiction, and suggest alternative responses to the stresses which I lead to experimentation and addiction. i FTTTT" ICR. Now there are tw Introductory I 'Xy h 1 s theatre USC tn "We will not be preaching," Gillespie said. "Drug and alcohol abuse is a very, very complex problem and there are no simple solutions. You can't say, 'Hey, that's not good for you,' and expect ^ _ _A " * urcm w stop, we want to use the theatre to explore the complexity of the problem and suggest there are no simple solutions." The theatre will consist of a writer-director, five paid actors, a technician receiving half pay, and two persons who are on independent study or receiving some, kind of academic credit for their work. THE WRITER-director is Kenneth Cameron, who though not a permanent member of the USC faculty, is no stranger to USC. He came to USC on an NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) grant through a program called "Writers in Residence." While here, he wrote four original scripts for the university, one of which is being held and produced this weekend in Hilton Head and Frino' Islands. Cameron will work full time with the program, writing most of the scripts, directing it in the beginning, and leading the troupe when they first begin touring. Another possible consultant on the project is a current inmate at the Central Correctional Institute eGottiu no Fiti F< itm notymr ws klllliv o facilities convenient f rates for our first 501 or 77 . ?|^|!g?fg| T mjpi &**%( ""M^KSsS^KrW^R ov*-' : K:^y.::aK^PMfe? jgs 3fc M jupe hopes i who is a former dri himself. Notwithstanding grade education and a bl prison, he has proc complete his college become an ordained min published author. THE PROJECT will b funded, and the univ< provide matching funds community service coi with a combined total more than $48,000. T1 funding is received Program IMPACT unde the Higher Education A and administered by Commission on Higher through the U.S. Com Education. It is dei strengthen communit projects of colleges ai sities. In reader's theatre th not memorize lines, scripts when on stage, stage sets and costumc absent in this theatrica Because of this, readc is ideally suited for project, Gillespie said. "Using reader's the excessive costs of nrnr cuts space limitations, This curtailing of space is particularly imports the grant"productions ' staged in regular theat > 'RpAf. uiik ness & aerobic el or Men and Wonr i ? NOW, for students. 90 students. Call ti 2-4688 at Dutch to reach drug iig addict "OFTEN WE a t an eighth discuss a problem leak life in can display it," eeded to "Theatre is a mea education, complex ideas an< ister and a the consequences of action, even understand the id< to logically discus e federally The troupe ii srsity will rehearse most of tl through its beginning in f< nmitment, sessions just bef< budget of once classes tx ie federal practice approxim through week and will bet r Title I of iate fall semester id of 1965, semester exclus the S.C. Carolina and focus Education the Columbia arei mission of signed to An interesting n nHlmlwr work w"?> cording to Gillesj problem with tl ticularly the abuf e cast does 41180 ot^er substai but uses coming to light Elaborate ways," she said, s are also "APPARENT1 1 form. among the elder 1 ;r's theatre them to begin ale the grant they never used tc 'that many of the ] atre limits dealing with are r luction and now? but are cur she said, aiconoi, or at ie< limitations alcohol as the s nt because problems," she s will not be "This is ciirren res. for the first time s ? Hnntoi i/iwm AT USC - F 1 Harden St. (near I t>day for a free visil Square Blvd. alcohol experi in t describe or major healtl i as well as we country, and Gillespie said, believe Colunr as of displaying ? . . .. 1 demonstrating ,J?rig,! y, to various lines e<Jera gran( when we don't storing prise &as well enough Pnme Papula sthem."^^ ^c?Pcerne^i the theatre d< J planning to on drug < it ? . mo inmo^oo fie iaii semester, ' , >ur eight-hour **,ves as a 1 re registration, therapy grou gin, they will Ciillesp ately 20 hours a members bee Jin to tour from area WIJ through spring Pnme target ively in South However fin ing primarily on ProJ?0* and tl L eliminated. "I BELIEF luwiciu wwccriib field and one >r citizens, ac- somehow,M pie. "The whole unfortunatel: ds group, par- not currentl e of alcohol but terestingly c ices, is just now we talked to 1 in some major inmates we a that they did ,Y, loneliness and become y leads some of they enterec ohol abuse when palling fact, i before. I believe parently the people we will be to these subs lOt addicted right in nrisnn rently turning to ""it's an e* ist the abuse of project, and solution to their unique. If we aid. well serve ? tly being studied many other as a recognized the nation." HMMHHHnnHH > ucTftu r ive Points JSC) and Dutch Squ< f 779-8385 at Horde 1 f i | L? ! ^ Li r' ' { ...... JPT w . :-^s. *??|| *'''?*%.< . . s&i&f W& P**:' vJra-.~';.;.- ..:::?:: ;j^l:l>'a^ > memers k problem In this I have no reason to ibia is an exception." written into the t was the concept of his to reach one of the tions reader's theatre nhniit Turn VAorc QffA "W ^v?uo spartment produced a abuse in prison that had written themresult of an internal P and other faculty ame interested in this >te it in as one of the area$ of the project, ids were cut on the le prison project was /E that it is a fertile i that needs covering Gillespie said, "but V it's one that we are y funded to do. Inenough, the prisoners two years ago and the ire talking to now said not start taking drugs addicted until after I : ni- ? ? i pi uuu. 11 s on apif it is a fact. So apinmates have access tances for abuse while :citing and interesting I as far as I know succeed, it could very is a pilot project for groups like it across re Blvd. nSt.