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Show The Summerblrd I 12 Enjpasadeel Sfeafoesgsas's Pes&hFaS thfSM ogssa j7 Fifteen additional perfonnances have been added, which will take the season to September The 23rd annual Utah Shakespearean Festival opens July 12 and according to Public Relations Director R. Scott Phillips, season preparations are well into place. 'The Festival this summer has I M, reason to be optimistic," Phillips stated. tyiAv "We have added 15 performances; the season will not close until September 1, r'? ft-1 running 1984 productions into the beautiful southern Utah autumn season." In addition, while excellent seating remains available for most nights during the summer, advance ticket sales continue ahead of last season at the corresponding time, providing another reason for optimism. Patrons experiencing difficulty finding tickets available for the nights of their choice are invited to investigate Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday night performances, or the matinee productions which are presented twice weekly this summer and which replicate the most popular performances. A 21 member acting company has been chosen and contracted. The company was again chosen from several hundred acting applications, and this summer for the first time ever at the Festival includes three Equity Professional actors. This additional professional strength will show up in added quality of the performances, Phillips indicated. Plays for 1984 are The Taming Of the Shrew, The Tempest, and TroiUus and Cressida as well as matinee performances of The Taming Of The Shrew and The Queen's Feste, a musical matinee featuring "tea and crumpets." The Festival is located on the campus of Southern Utah State College, host school since the Festival's beginning in 1962. The Taming Of The Shrew opens the 1984 season. Directed by Sanford Robbins from the theatre and dance department of the University of Wisconsin, The Shrew is a continual crowd pleaser as audiences once again watch Katherina and Petruchio battle it out. Douglas Marmee is costuming the 1984 production, and Ron Ranson is scenic designer. Troilus and Cressida, a rarely performed play incorporating history, comedy and tragedy, is being presented Troilus and Cressida, The Taming of the Shrew, and The Tempest are this year's 400-ye- In addition to evening entertainment, The Utah Shakespearean Festival also includes The Queens Feste, tours, seminars, orientations, greenshows and several matinee performances. Theatre grads receive top assistantships Three theatre have been SUSC products selected for prestigious assistantships; two at Rutgers University and one at Asolo Theatre Conservatory in Sarasota, Fla. Parry Stewart, a theatre arts major from Payson, was selected by Asolo, through national auditions to attend classes this fall. Stewart graduated from SUSC on June 2. "Mr. Stewart is one of five students in the past 10 years to be selected from our ranks to attend this nationally acclaimed school," said Fred C. Adams, coordinator of SUSC theatre arts. Stewart is known to southern Utah audiences for roles in Pippin, for which he received an Irene Ryan Acting Award nomination, The Cherry Orchard, and Working. David McMurtrie, a June 2 graduate from Rochester, New York, was selected by Rutgers University in technical theatre after displaying his skills at national auditions held in Chicago. Rutgers was one of 14 major theatre university theatre programs to contact him following the auditions, a college spokesman said. 'David has provided SUSC theatre arts with some of our most creative and innovate technical work," said Adams, "I'm sure he will do well at Rutgers." John Waters of Richfield, who also graduated June 2, will attend the professional theatre graduate program at Rutgers in the fild of directing, the spokesman said. His assistantship will include a stipend to cover major expenses. "Rutgers University is one of the finest graduate schools in professional theatre in the United States," said Fred C. Adams, coordinator of the SUSC theatre arts department. '7ohn was selected from over 300 directing candidates to be one of four graduate students in directing in this prestigious program." "John will graduate with high honors, and I'm convinced he is one of the most gifted young men to come out of our program in many years," Adams added. 1 . for the first time at the Utah Festival. Directed by Libby Appel, who chairs the theatre department at the California Institute of the Arts, the play will be costumed by Beth Novak from the University of Utah. Rounding out the summer's Shakespearean productions is The Ten.pest, chosen by 'die Festival this summer to commemorate the anniversary of colonization in the new world. Directed by David Knight from the University of Illinois, Urbana, and costumed by Rosemary Ingham, The Tempest was written near the end of Shakespeare's life, and, has been regarded as his final comment on life. The Queen's Feste, a musical matinee presented each Monday and Friday afternoon during the Festival season, features the Festival Chamber Consort musicians playing Renaissance music on authentic instruments. Sonnet reading and other poetry will complement the music, and light refreshments will be served in the Elizabethan manner. David Gatts is returning musical director for the Festival. Again this summer the repertory performances are designed to allow patrons to attend all three Shakespearean performances in two days by including a Wednesday or Saturday matinee. Matinees are performed on the Indoor Stage beginning July 21 at 2 p.m., and all matinees replicate evening performances as nearly as possible. Rounding out the traditional Festival experience are seminars, backstage tours, orientations and a nightly greenshow preceding each performance. This summer's Exhibit Hall display from the World of William Shakespeare features a recognition of the anniversary of exploration in the New World, a theme touched upon in The Jempest, and the Exhibit Hall will bring almost to life the Indians, colonizers and artifacts of the Jamestown colony. For ticket information concerning the 1984 Utah Shakespearean Festival please write Utah Shakespearean Festival, Cedar City, Utah 84720, or telephone (801) 400-ye- offerings. Page 5 586-788- ar ar 0. Stadium, track under renovation Improvements now under way at Southern Utah State College's Thunderbird Stadium have made it necessary to temporarily close the facility to public use. The rubberized track has been popular for joggers and serious runners as a site to train. 'The surface of the track has been deteriorating, and it has reached the stage where repairs are necessary," Gary Davis, SUSC grounds supervisor, said. 'In addition, we are reseeding the entire area between the stadium and 800 West, and well be making some extensive improvements on our sprinkling system." Current plans call for a period of about two months to complete the project. Track improvements include removing the entire existing surface and replacing it. Also, long jump and triple jump pits will be moved from their present locations and relocated near the ends of the stadium. The pole vault area will also be relocated, according to Davis. "We will certainly appreciate the public's cooperation," Davis said. 'The less interference we have the sooner we can complete the work and the quicker we will have the facility in condition for public and college use." |
