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Show K- i 'f''' Timothy Paul Bryson's set design for SUSC's Feb. 22,23, 28, 29, March 1 performance per-formance of Shakespeare's "As You Like " --- It." Bryson is finishing requirements for a MFA in scenic design from the University of Utah with this design. "As You Like it" Festival last summer, working as a scenic technician. The SUSC designer has also been the designer-technical designer-technical director for the Amarillo Little Theater, Amarillo, Texas, and worked as a scenic artist at the University of Utah where he received the 1978-79 award for outstanding set design for a production of "A Little Night Music." For the upcoming production of Shakespeare's "As You Like It," the Southern Utah State College stage must be transformed from a heavily wooded forest into a king's court, all without losing the fluid fairy tale-like aura of the show. Timothy Paul Bryson, technical director of the SUSC theater department, has designed a set that will portray all the places where the comedy takes place but that won't break into the flow of the production required by director Fred C. Adams. "Because of the demands of the show, the many different dif-ferent localities where action ac-tion takes place, heavy demands have been placed on the scenic designer," Adams said. "Bryson's design has afforded me the opportunity to create some marvelous stage pictures." Bryson's set has been designed '. as a space setting, set-ting, using a large circular platform which rotates around the stage, and which blends with different fixed features to create many large acting spaces. The design is one of his final projects for a M.F.A. degree in scenic design from the University of Utah. "As You Like It" will be evening performances beginning at 8: 15 p.m. in the college auditorium. Matinee performances--for some 1,500 junior and senior high school students-will be held Feb. 20, 21 at 10:30 a.m. and Feb. 27,28 at 1 p.m. It is the first Shakespearean production at SUSC-presented by students since 1975 when a campus-community production of "Love's Labour's Lost" was staged. Tickets will be available at the SUSC box office, beginning Friday, from 1-5 p.m. weekdays and from 1 p.m. until curtain-time on the days of performance. Reservations may also be presented at SUSC Feb. 22 23, 28, 29 and March 1, as made by calling 586-4411, extension 234. Bryson's set for "As You Like It," with a few alterations, will be also used for a music department production of "Carmen," scheduled for March 5-8. Along with set desisgn, Bryson is designing lights for SUSC's Shakespearean comedy. "For the wedding scene, " Adams said, "trees in the background will light up, doves and cherubs will fill the stage, and the whole scene will be transformed intoa dreamland, which is in keeping with our plan to produce 'As You Like It' as a I airy tale." Bryson has been at SUSC lor one year, during which time he has been the technical director of "Working" and "Dial 'M- for Murder." He was a member of the Utah Shakespearean |