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By Bridget Harrow
Reporter
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
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Charles Gordone has joined the
ater arts department at Texas A&M
this fall as a distinguished lecturer.
Gordone is best known for his
play “No Place to Be Somebody,”
which received a Pulitzer Prize, the
Drama Desk Award and the Los An
geles Critics Circle Award in 1970.
Thfe play has been translated into
four languages and recently under
went a revival in Los Angeles.
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After being asked to teach at
other universities such as Sarah Law
rence, Columbia, Carnegie-Mellon
and Harvard, the 61-year-old play
wright says he chose to come to
A&M because he felt he could be of
good service.
“Why should I go to some other
acknowledged institution, be ap
pointed and just fall into the politics
of the school?” he asked. “I’ve had a
history of wanting to put my theater
experience in a teaching situation at
a grass-roots level. So where else but
in the South would I get the oppor
tunity to do so?
“Besides, I'm an Fastener, and I
was getting tired of New York.”
Gordone will teach acting, pl^y-
writing and directing courses. He
also will be deeply involved in the re
cruitment of young black and His
panic students, especially in theater.
He says that is another reason he
chose A&M.
“A&M is spending $3 million on
the recruitment of minority stu
dents,” he says. “I don’t know of any
other university that is spending that
much money.”
When Gordone began his career
in theater as an actor 30 years ago,
he says blacks were cast in stereotypi
cal roles. He says now he doesn’t
want minorities to just be in their
own separate theater, but he wants
to see them playing roles more sub
stantial than servants.
“I never just wanted an all-black
theater, but instead I wanted to see
an American theater — non-tradi-
tional, cross-cultural, integrated the
ater, with the use of minorities in a
logical, historical way,” he says.
Gordone says that when he di
rected “A Streetcar Named Desire”
by Tennessee Williams, he cast Stan
ley as a creole and a light-skinned
black man played the part.
“I’ve been down in New Orleans
and I don’t know of many Poles who
live in the French Quarter,” he says.
“Some people have suggested that
Williams would have done the same,
but back then it just wasn’t cool.”
Gordone will be directing Williams’
“Moony’s Kids Don’t Cry” this year
for the Aggie Players.
Besides teaching and directing,
Gordone has been active in various
other projects. He recendy was
awarded the D.H. Lawrence
Fellowship by the University of New
Mexico and spent his summer at the
D.H. Lawrence Ranch in New Mex
ico. He also hasjust completed a play
he has been working on for the last
five years called “Roan Brown and
Cherry,” and is writing a pilot for
CBS, which is a dramedy — a cross
between a comedy and a drama —
about a black family in Harlem.
“I will always keep writing,” he
says, “because when you write, the
only person who could fire you is
yourself. Maybe someday I will write
something that someone will say,
‘Hey, that will be here for posteri-
ty.’ ”
He says he hopes students will
learn something from his teaching
and writing because he feels he is
learning something new every day.
“If the day comes when I’m not
learning, I’ll just go home and sit in
front of the television,” he says. “But
by then, maybe, I’ll be watching my
own show.”
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ber committee Formed to apply For
AIDS grants and government
money has been criticized because it
doesn’t include anyone from a ho
mosexual organization or someone
with the disease.
“I think everyone in Houston is
aware of the significant problem that
exists as a result of the spread of
AIDS,” Houston Mayor Kathy Whit
mire said Tuesday in announcing
the task force with Harris County
Judge Jon Lindsay.
“We have not tried to politicize it,
to
and we certainly have not asked any
one about their sexual orientation in
terms of serving on this panel,” she
said.
David Fowler, a member of Ac
tion on AIDS, said the absence of
homosexuals on the panel is ludi
crous.
“She is missing the people that
AIDS is affecting most,” he said, ref
erring to the mayor. “We have lots of
brilliant gay people she could have
chosen.”
Annise Parker, president of the
Houston Gay and Lesbian Political
Caucus, said the panel was overdue.
“But I have qualms about the
makeup of the panel,” she said.
Bill Teague, president of the Gulf
Coast Regional Blood Center, is
chairman of the new panel, which
also includes members of medicine,
politics, academia, the clergy and
business.
“I am pleased the mayor and the
judge have taken the initiative to do
this,” Teague said. “There’s a lot to
do and I think they have selected the
people to get it done.”
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has recorded 1,393 confira?
of AIDS, with 84 percem
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