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Show The Summit bn d 3 June 19, 19t,9 New theatre joins 89 festivities Americas newest performing arts theatre is set to open its first season June 23 at 8 30 p.m. with Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie. June 24s matinee premieres Nothing Like the Sun, a new play by Doug Christensen starring Patrick Page. The evening premiere on June 24 is Molieres The Imaginary Invalid. Every detail of the building and productions has been planned for the theatregoers maximum comfort and enjoyment. Constructed over a two-yeperiod at a cost in excess of $5.5 million, the Randall L. Jones Theatre will double the offerings of the Utah Shakespearean Festival and enhance the Festivals contribution to the local economy. The Randall L. Jones Theatre seats 767 patrons comfort. The seats in armchair, fan out from a modified thrust stage to give every patron an unobstructed view. Sound and lighting are controlled by computers, and walls and surfaces are designed to carry stage sounds from front to back at the same volume Tennesee Williams The Glass Menagerie, one of the great dramas of the American stage, joins protagonist Tom Wingfield as he reminisces about his mother and sister m their alley apartment ip St Louis during the Great Depression. Martin n Kildare, who performed two roles for the 1988 festival, portrays Tom Megan Cole, who has received tw'o L A Dramalogue Awards and the L A Drama Critics Circle Aw'ard, is featured as Amanda, Toms mother. Cole has also toured with the American Conservatory Theatres U.S State Department tour of Russia, the Royal Shakespeare Companys American University Tour, and Tw'O Folger Library Shakespearean Tours. Doug Christensens Nothing Like the Sun, commissioned by the Utah Shakespearean Festival for the premiere season of the Randall Jones Theatre, features Patrick Page as Ben Jonson, ar state-of-the-a- rt lovesick-young-ma- Elizabethan playwright Page portrays Jonson struggling at the task of composing commissioned lines as he traces the history of his relationship to Shakespeare In a virtuoso one-ma- n performance Page transmits conversations as well as soliloquies Molieres The Imaginary Invalid stars Cal Winn, Monica Bell, Megan Cole, and a lively supporting cast in a classic farce of hypochondria, professional ineptitude, and the triumph of common sense. Winn, featured as the hypochondriac Argan, appears frequently with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts. His television credits include Guiding Light, national commercials and films for PBS Television. He has also performed Monica Bell is enjoying her fourth year with the Festival. Past audiences have applauded her as Desdemona in Othello, Imogen in Cymbeline, Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Celia in As You Like It, among other roles She has performed in numerous regional theatres, and spent a year in Japan as artistic assistant to the director of the Suzuki Company of Toga. The Randall L. Jones Theatre is the first building in Utah designed exclusively for s Adams legitimate theatre since the Shakespearean Theatre was dedicated in 1977, it incorporates the thrust stage from Elizabethan theatre design. The new' theatre also erjovs die best features of theatre, includ.ng a roof overhead and climate control. The Randall season begins Jjne 23 and continues through Sept 2 Six evening performances and tw'o matinees aie offered each week through July 13 Beginning July 14, The Imaginary Invalid will join the matinee schedule, bringing to four the total of Randall matinees The mezzanine level of the foyer of the Randall L Jones Theatre reflects July 6 is the opening of the traditional the proud craftsmanship that has gone into the entire building Shakespearean season at the Adams world-famou- Varied summer school program begins here Southern Utah States offerings to an intensive chemistry workshop from jewelry range Southern Utah State summer school officially begins June 19 with a solid core of academic courses augmented with a multitude of special conferences and workshops. The full academic session runs June 19 through Aug. 11 and is separated into two shorter periods, June 19 through July 14 and July 17 through Aug. 11. Some courses run the entire eight weeks, others for just one session. Summer school 1989 is a continuation of many good, solid programs, and its a springboard for a variety of new additions such as the Governors Honors Academy, a Utah Symphony Orchestra performance and a summer youth horse camp, said Summer School Dean Phillip C. Carter. The Governors Honors Academy, July 9 through 21, is a special program for select high school students. Participants will be special guests at a July 9 Utah Symphony performance featuring international opera star Roberta Peters. Tickets to the performance, made possible by Utah philanthropist Obert C. Tanner, are on sale at the SUSC Centrum. SUSCs summer school schedule includes a variety of fun and educational workshops, Dr. Carter said. A new program, the June 19 who through 23 youth horse camp, is designed for 9- - through are invited to bring their horses with them for a carefully supervised program of riding instruction, classroom lectures, and an overnight trail ride and Western cookout. The summer school program is tailored to meet the needs of incoming freshmen, regular college students and inservice teachers enrolled in masters degree programs, Carter said. Other programs are geared especially for older folks, the Elderhostel program for example, and for campus visitors who want to enroll in programs to enhance their attendance at the ' Utah Shakespearean Festival. 1 Of interest to Utah Shakespearean Festival patrons is the opening of the Randall L. Jones , Theatre for the Performing Arts. Dates for the 1989 USF season are June 23 through Sept. 2. Additional contributions to the "Festival City 1 Utah Summer y image are the June 9 American Folk Ballet. Games and the Aug. ' making The seventh annual Gifted and Talented Institute, July 9 through 14 for entering 7th and 8th graders, is another program, Utah Girls State will be held on campus June 11 through 16, and hundreds of additional young people are expected on campus for swimming classes and a number of sports camps. Credit and courses alike are planned to take advantage of southern Utahs summer weather. The first of six geology field trips is scheduled June 23 and 24, an outdoor Dutch oven cooking class starts June 19, and a wildlife and landscape photography course starts Aug. 1. Also on the agenda are longstanding geology and archeology field schools. SUSCs college cabin is rapidly becoming an integral part of the youth-oriente- non-cred- d it five-da- y summer school program with offerings ranging from on-sit- cabin e renovation and construction courses to a trio of ceramic and watcrcolor landscape workshops scheduled to start on and shortly after July 17 Also scheduled at the Cedar Mountain cabin is the July 24 Homesteader Daysextravaganza. Weve got pioneer-typactivities galore planned for this event, Carter said Its going to be a day with games, exhibits and lots of surprises. The summer bulletin lists more than 200 academic courses, many of them for inservice teachers. Education classes which merit their own catalog this year range from 16 masters degree level courses in a cooperative SUSCUtah State University v program to the Ninth Annual SUSC Reading Conference and teacher enhancement workshops in everything from Shakespeare for Teachers to lapidary and math series. jewelry making and a nine-paCopies of the summer schedule and flyers for specific workshops are available at the Division of Continuing Education offices in Braithwaite Center 203 and in the College Administration Building. Registration for credit classes can be completed at the classes and Registrars Office, special workshops at the Continuing e family-oriente- I Jj rt non-cred- it Education Office. 26-Jul- 10-1- Summer School Dean Phillip C Carter d |