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Gillespie ~ performance ? before the according to Gillespie. "I THOUGHT 'Colored C thought our production of "] season-opener) was quite sj several years ago of 'Strear recalled. Through the years, USC 1 n/>r.lnn..n?r.:nl (IT? f i,uiiuuvciaiai piays. rui v and sexism with an all-bh blatant homosexual refei statement; later this sea treatment of homosexuals camp. Gillespie said the departn in poor taste or stage worl She commended university hinting at censorship." SHE SAID the 1976 produ* community reaction. "Mos doing such an avant-garde Carolina/' she said, "and ol 10 years out of date; we wer Gillespie said she believe than other, more controver familiarity. "The sort of person that c< be shocked by either 'Strea doesn't come is likely to be s "Everybody had heard , people in the theater who 1 they paid simply to be offen went home and wrote me a told him about how offendec A TALL, angular woma closely cropped salt-and-pe; background that did not perience. She was gradual tucky in 1958 with a degre chemistry. Because she was teachini a master's degree in che years. She taught for about in drama, which increasinj seek her doctorate at India assistantship in several def The theater departments entered the doctoral progrs course in her life. She recer I UNI MOI FRC 1 Tucky tt I& plus otf I Join i imwti frwn pagt 12 holdover was ever announced, rirls' was absolutely brilliant. I rhe Birthday Party' (this year's )lendid. I thought our production ners' was simply first-rate," she has produced several potentially Colored Girls" deals with racism ick cast; "Streamers" contains fences and a blunt anti-war ison, "Bent" will concern the in Duchau, a Nazi concentration lent has never produced material fs not educationally meaningful, administrators for "never even :tion of "Hair" sparked the most t people were complaining about piay at tne university of South f course, my response was, it was e doing it as a historical revival." s "Hair" received more attention sial, works because of its general omes to our theater is not likely to liners' or 'Bent.' The person that shocked if they knew what it was. about 'Hair,' and so there were lad never been there before, and ded. And they were, and then they letter or called the president and 1 they were!" she laughed. n with large, riveting eyes and pper hair, Gillespie comes from a include much early theater exted from the University of Kene in bacteriology and a minor in g high school, she worked toward mis try, earning it within three eight years, including one course 3ly interested her. She decided to ina University and applied for an artments, including theater. 3 offer was the best, and Gillespie im without having taken a theater ved her Ph.D. in 1970. &IST1 I AMES D WILL BE IN TH [\ICDCITV DAAI/C" IVK.|\^I I V DWIVO 300K DEPARTMi SIDAY, DECEMBE )M 3:00 pm - 4:i st edition copk the Hunter (at Jericho, and Pi mailable for slgi lers of Mr. Dick is ror cnristmi with Mr. Dick* 'I wanted to start a dej excellence (es a standard! talk sahmit avrpllanno sand MIB1 WB WW UBIM anything about it I didn'1 having just another medii department, beceuse God hundreds of those arountl - USC Department of Theatre sne got a jod as assistant pi University of Iowa, a position sh< being appointed director of grad department chairwoman. She was GILLESPIE SAID she did noti appointment, but felt the offer w, pass up. "I'm worn out. I think eij quite enough, The department m she said. USC will be hiring a senior pre ting to fill Gillespie's vacancy, as theater history, according to h< ministrative duties, she also has dramatic theory and theater hisi has special expertise. Next yeai onkia/tf tttill ka ouuj^vi mil uc i^uuiiaucu. "I thought for me to be replac flattering/' she joked, toying wit MAS IICKEY E TORE'S ENT R13th I SO pm I 5S Of ? : 1/2 price), I tela I ling; I ey's works. I as Cheer I sv! I lartment that set A lot of people I then don't do t see a point in jcre theater knows, there are I the country.' and Speech chairwoman Patti Gillespie ofessor of theater at the < i held for two years before 1 uate studies and associate 1 ; then invited to USC. actively seek the Maryland < as a challenge she couldn't j jht years at any one place is , iay need some new blood," fessor in acting and direc- 1 well as a junior professor of ' jr. In addition to her ad- 1 > been teaching courses in 1 tory, an area in which she *, a book she wrote on the : ;ed by two people is rather h her glasses resting on her -f r~? jf up V Ik "V W 1 I Ctfl N : l lai an6 : (Rock > I . b i i i hai * ~CA * : <3* ; Draft ; ?i tt tut c mini n uimiiw hip wiiii num hhiiwii in urn iijn ~-;i." mm, ' =" RSpMi ' ' ; nra| iesktop. With the versatility she hi JSC position, however, one reflects v :he one-liner. Gillespie said she wants the new c and he will be a man, she remai women have rarely been promoted freely pursue his own goals. She is concerns on the matter, though. "OUR CONSTRAINTS are seve enough money at the box office so department, but we need to serve t our own students, and that meat directors and our designers. We ne needs of the community, and that m same plays Workshop Theatre and 1 lately," she said. "And ... if a student attends regul rONIGHT AT *ol6 kellir the IV of 1 in stRum entail ill pORtm - piAMO >Mrty oIbam - Ihsc utles wain - JpuMfi loltil KclliM^-^UltAR dmission - $2.0C tfug Glub Specia - .25 from 8-10 ^iv|> ''? . ??I 7^- "VJR*":' ,,A ^BBWp I J I Photo by |lm Rekler as demonstrated in her vith some seriousness on lepartment chairman ? ks bluntly, noting that too hiszhlv at USC ? to quick to voice her own ral. We need to make we don't go broke as a he educational needs of is our actors and our ed to serve the cultural eans we shouldn't do the rown Theatre have done arly every play for four e_ 'n;n? i- ic uvo um??|iv?, puyv u p up up tf < < < < < < i i i i i i i i * i i i ^ i : IX' : < ' i < ists) ; i < i i i i < i < < i i ) i 9 < 1 : p.m. ;