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Show ------- - - dealing with the strict social classes of Elizabethan London: Simon Eyre, the here's a different kind of holiday at the Utah Shakespearean shoemaker who rises from his middle-class roots to become the mayor of Festival this summer: not a day off for the actors and artists, not a London; Roland Lacy, a youth of noble birth who abandons his military post holiday from great theatre, but The Shoemaker's Holiday, a and disguises himself as a luckless shoemaker to woo his sweetheart; and madcap Elizabethan comedy that will leave you laughing all the way home. Rose, a member of the middle class and the object of Roland's desires. As these Unfortunately some Festival patrons have been interpreting the abbreviated three characters interact with each other and the other London citizens around title "Holiday" in the season brochure as a day the Festival is closed rather them, playgoers get a vision of the colorful and joyful life of these hardthan days when The Shoemaker's Holiday is performed. However, Tuesdays working men and women. and Fridays are not holidays at the Festival, The play is being directed by Norman only days when this seldom-produced play Ayrton, who was born in and lives and works by a friend and rival of Shakespeare will be in London."lt's a very natural, very real play presented. about very real working people," he said. "We haven't had a lot of people call "It's a play about working people going about concerned that we were closed on these their business, making a living, and trying to nights, 11 said P. J. Rockwell, box office climb up the social ladder some way." manager, "but we have had enough that we "The Shoemaker's Holiday is not heroic. are concerned that people may be missing a It's not poetic. It's an entertainment. It was rare opportunity to see this hilarious written in honor of the City of London," he comedy." continued. "It's a very optimistic play. "We "Just to make sure that everybody is clear know from the beginning of the play that it on what could become confusing," added R. is going to have a happy ending. We know Scott Phillips, m anaging director, "we are that the lovers will somehow get back emphasizing that The Shoemaker's Holiday together. We know that Simon Eyre will plays every Tuesday and Friday at 8:30 in become lord mayor. The fun of it is seeing the Adams Shakespearean Theatre; and good seats are available for every night, as well as how." Ayrton, who has flown to the United for performances of all plays this summer." States twice in the past three months to The Festival presents world-classic theatre meet with his team of designers and who June 23 through September 3, every day will fly here again May 16 to begin rehearsals except Sundays and this summer is also for the play, said that many of the events and presenting Shakespeare's As You Like It, places we see in The Shoemaker's Holiday Love's Labour's Lost, and Richard III, as he sees all the time as he lives and works in well as Georges Feydeau's A Flea in Her Ear his hometown of London. It is a play rich in and Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar the lore and history of this world-famous Named Desire. You may order tickets by city. calling the Festival Box Office at 801-586"This is an absolutely wonderful play. We 7878. guarantee that you will have a genuine Set in London in the first half of the holiday when you see it," said Fred C. sixteenth century, Th e Shoemaker's Holiday Adams, Festival founder and executive is a play of the middle class of Shakespeare's producer. "Even though our actors, artists, time, and, through the eyes of playwright and technicians don' t get the holiday off Thomas Dekker, we see a side of themselves, they will offer you a holiday Elizabethan life that we seldom, if ever, see in Shakespeare's plays; we see the raucous, from the outside world as they transport you to London and let you into the lives of these colorful, sometimes irreverent workingmarvelous working people of Elizabethan class. The play is not set in the court or in England." pastoral woods, as are most of Shakespeare's plays, but in the working shops and streets "This is a play that is seldom performed, " he continued, "because Shakespeare so of London. Wayne Pyle as Firk (left) and Brian Kurlander as Roland Lacy overshadows everything else that was written In many ways, according to Festival (disguised as a Dutch shoemaker) in a scene from the Utah during his lifetime. But Thomas Dekker's officials, it is a Cinderella story, but Shakespearean Festival's production of 'The Shoemaker's certainly not a fairy tale. It involves real The Shoemaker's Holiday shouldn't be Holiday.' overshadowed by anything or anybody. We people in real situations, people and situations that were very typical in Shakespeare's day and still common today, are producing it this year because we think our patrons will absolutely adore even though many of the trappings around the situation have changed. it. They will chuckle, laugh, and roar throughout the evening. So, we hope they will spend their holiday here with us, at The Shoemaker's Holiday." The Shoemaker's Holiday revolves around three characters, all of them SUU This Summer A WEEKLY PUBLICATION OF SOUIHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY Editor Associate Editors Contributors Larry Baker Lynn Dennett John McCloskcy Dave Meanea Jim Robinson Neil Gardner Cal Rollins SUU This Summer is a publication of Southern Utah University, its Summer School program, its department of communication, its Office of Student Activities and the SUU Student Association. It is published eight times during the 1994 summer session: June 20, 27, July 5, 11, 18, 25 and August I. For information regarding the Almanac or advertising, please phone 586-7759 between the hours of 10 a.m. and noon, Tuesday through Thursday. Special thanks to Sterling Church, Craig Forman, Tiffany Evans, Phillip C. Carter and David Nyman. Swimming classes offered here he second of four sessions of swimming instruction offered through the SUU Division of Continuing Education starts Tuesday. 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