5.30.2005
Introductions
This is a weblog about theatre. It is my first entry in to this new phenomena.
I'm preparing this for a senior project and my advisors.
My name is Gus Pearcy. I am a returning student at Indiana State University. I originally went to college at ISU in the 1980s but did not graduate. By the time I finish my requirements, I will be 43 years of age.
My senior project was originally approved as directing a community theatre play. I intended it to be Neil Simon's Laughter on the 23rd Floor. But, as you will see, that did not work out.
Now I will be directing Peter Shaffer's Black Comedy, a delightful farce that should have audiences rolling in the aisles. (Hopefully).
This weblog will act as my journal that I submit weekly for credit on my senior project.
I also hope that it will act as a sort of guide or diatribe on directing a play.
For years, I have been a performer. I have acted in several productions and even tried theatre as my major in my first try at ISU. In all I have directed probably 10 plays and been in three times more.
I have had a career as a journalist for a local weekly and 13 years in radio around Indiana.
My wife, Lesley, and son, Luke, live in Danville Indiana, about 25 miles west of Indianapolis.
Now I am a communications studies major at Indiana State University.
About four years ago, me and a friend of mine - Scott Cline - approached the Wayne Township Metropolitan School District about producing summer theatre in the brand new theater that seats around 450. In order to gain favor with the school districts and to reduce overhead, we proposed that the plays raise money for the Wayne Township Education Foundation. This organization awards grants and scholarships to teachers and students that enhance learning.
For Scott and I, it meant we could do avocational theatre in a real professional space. That is something else. I have produced and directed two shows there - The Diviners and Scapino!
When I decided to return to school, I asked the faculty if I could turn this year's directing duties into a senior, independednt study project. They were nice enough to agree.
I'm preparing this for a senior project and my advisors.
My name is Gus Pearcy. I am a returning student at Indiana State University. I originally went to college at ISU in the 1980s but did not graduate. By the time I finish my requirements, I will be 43 years of age.
My senior project was originally approved as directing a community theatre play. I intended it to be Neil Simon's Laughter on the 23rd Floor. But, as you will see, that did not work out.
Now I will be directing Peter Shaffer's Black Comedy, a delightful farce that should have audiences rolling in the aisles. (Hopefully).
This weblog will act as my journal that I submit weekly for credit on my senior project.
I also hope that it will act as a sort of guide or diatribe on directing a play.
For years, I have been a performer. I have acted in several productions and even tried theatre as my major in my first try at ISU. In all I have directed probably 10 plays and been in three times more.
I have had a career as a journalist for a local weekly and 13 years in radio around Indiana.
My wife, Lesley, and son, Luke, live in Danville Indiana, about 25 miles west of Indianapolis.
Now I am a communications studies major at Indiana State University.
About four years ago, me and a friend of mine - Scott Cline - approached the Wayne Township Metropolitan School District about producing summer theatre in the brand new theater that seats around 450. In order to gain favor with the school districts and to reduce overhead, we proposed that the plays raise money for the Wayne Township Education Foundation. This organization awards grants and scholarships to teachers and students that enhance learning.
For Scott and I, it meant we could do avocational theatre in a real professional space. That is something else. I have produced and directed two shows there - The Diviners and Scapino!
When I decided to return to school, I asked the faculty if I could turn this year's directing duties into a senior, independednt study project. They were nice enough to agree.
