Project Summary

These interviews concern the history of the University of Kentucky's Guignol Theater. Interviewees include Charles Pogue Jr., Julieanne Pogue, Ann S. Mason, Roger Leasor, and Hubert P. Henderson. Topics include the Theater Department and College of Fine Arts of the University of Kentucky, plays, Bacchae, Dark of the Moon, Playboy of the Western World, The Lion in Winter, acting, directing, Vietnam War, war protests, Third Floor Theatre, Canterbury Playhouse, Charles Dickens, Wally Briggs, Bruce Peyton, Thelma Beeler, Jill Geiger, and Barry Corum. Ann S. Mason discusses growing up in Mason County, Kentucky; Maysville, Kentucky; St. Patrick Catholic Church; studying music; University of Kentucky Music department; musical theatre, Dr. Nellie Perkins.