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Show 'Guardsman' tickets available llW'lWLJIMJJIlJllllllWMW'J'ai!M fJtj s !.u i. mi mm liuiiliHinimi i jiijiii .iinij, . of the SUSC Department of Communication-Theatre Communication-Theatre Arts and managing director of the Utah Shakespearean Festival. Drafting and technical assistance Were under the direction of Timothy P. Bryson, SUSC technical director. Barbara Cox, a veteran of many years as a Utah Shakespearean Festival Costumer, designed costumes for "The Guardsman." Steven J. Backus, University of Utah Theatre Department, designed lights for the production. Michael McCulloch of Pioneer Memorial Theater serves as production stage manager. Solari Theatre Ensemble and for several major productions for PBS television. Other cast members are Joann Patton, a five-year five-year veteran of the Oregon Shakespearean Theatre and two-year veteran of the Utah Shakespearean Festival; Jesse Bennett, a well-known well-known Utah actor who has toured his one-man show to several other states; Ruby Thomas, a University of Utah student ; and Joan Myrberg and Jeff Schneiter, both SUSC students. Sets for the professional production were designed by Gary M. Mclntyre, chairman Sandra Shotwell Sam Tsoutsouvas Misanthrope." Shotwell is adjunct assistant professor "in the University of Utah Theatre Department who has performed with the American Conservatory Theatre, the Los Angeles Reservations can now be made for "The Guardsman," a traveling Pioneer State Theatre Foundation production being staged April 24-25 at Southern Utah State College. Performances will be held at 8 p.m. each evening in the SUSC Auditorium. Tickets are available at 586-4411, extension 234, from 1 to 5 p.m. each day and from 1 p.m. until curtain-time on days of performance. The price of admission to the professional production has been included in the cost of season theatre passes at SUSC. Other tickets are $3 for adults without season passes, $2.50 for high school students and senior citizens, and $2 for SUSC students with activity cards. Fred C. Adams, professor of theatre arts at SUSC and producing director of the Utah Shakesparean Festival, is "The Guardsman" director. A romantic comedy, the play was written in 1910 by Ferenc Molnar and is the story of the temperament and love of a couple of prominent theatre people. The Pioneer State Theatre Foundation is a partnership of minds from colleges across the state. Each season the foundation's professional advisory committee selects a play, a director and a host organization for the annual production. Sets, lighting and costumes are provided by the host and rehearsals are frequently held on that campus. Professional guest artists combine with students from member universities univer-sities to present a superb production that tours throughout the state. SUSC and the Utah Shakespearean festival are production hosts this year. "The Guardsman" will be shown in Cedar City this summer as a matinee production-Tuesdays production-Tuesdays and Fridays of the USF. Four of its principal actors, Sam Tsousouvas, Sandra Shotwell, Joann Patton and Jesse Bennett, will also be part of the festival acting company. "Prior to performances here in Cedar City, Tsousouvas and Shotwell will conduct theatre workshops for SUSC students and other interested in-terested parties Friday morning at SUSC," Adams said. For further information on these workshops contact the Box Office, 586-4411, extension 234. "We are thrilled to have these professional performers on our campus," he said, "who are willing to share their time and talents with our students." Tsousouvas will be well remembered with local audiences for appearances ap-pearances in Utah Shakespearean Festival productions of "Julius Ceasar," "The Merchant of Venice," "Coriolanus" and "Romeo and Juliet." He also appeared at SUSC as Pioneer State Memorial productions of "Sleuth" and "The |