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Show Opening Tuesday VCourfly Love A PMT Winner l The next play in the current Jbcock Season at the Pioneer - Smorial Theatre, opening Tues- r . It the brain-child of a local playwright, Mrs. Polly R. Swensen. Mrs. Swensen is the winner of the Pioneer Pio-neer Memorial Theatre playwriting competition. After the contest, Mrs. Swensen rewrote the play. But this was only half the job. y "The rewriting I had planned on doing, but I hadn't planned on becoming be-coming a combination set-builder, seamstress and Jill-of-all trades for those frantic months of production." The play has been in rehearsal for two months, and the all-student production is fast being mounted on the stage of the Babcock Thea-tre. Thea-tre. The set design is by Michelle Guillot, a theatre design major who has produced the sets for many other productions at PMT. Linda Giese provided the costumes. The cast is comprised of students, most of whom have appeared in other University productions. Lady Eglantine is played by Rinda Frye, Friar Tom by C. Richard Rich-ard Nelson and Sir Periwinkle by Harry Breaux. Miss Frye appeared in the University Uni-versity Shakespeare Company productions. pro-ductions. Nelson has appeared in "A Taste of Honey," "Funny Girl" and "An Italian Straw Hat." Breaux played in "An. Italian Straw Hat" and with the University Shakespeare Company. Supporting players are Joseph Case, Chris Hall and Reenie Hansen. Han-sen. Robert Hyde Wilson is directing direc-ting and Jeffrey Haskin is his assistant. The play will open Tuesday and run until Saturday. Saturday, there will be a 2 p.m. matinee. Playwright Polly Swensen, author of the latest Babcock Theatre presentation, pres-entation, "How Courtly Love," fixes C. Richard Nelson's costume. |