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Show Rehearsals underway for new production CEDAR CITY -Rehearsals are underway at Southern Utah State College for a Feb. 24-27. March 3-6 production of William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night or What You Will." Directed bv R. Scott Phillips. "Twelfth Night" is being staged in the SL'SC Studio Theater, with curtain-time at 8 p.m. Tickets are available by calling 586-7876 586-7876 from l to 5 p.m. weekdays. Special matinee performances have been scheduled for area high schools March 2-4. "SL'SC has a reputation as a 'Shakespeare school because the L'tah Shakespearean Festival is held on campus each summer." Phillips said. "Even though some students work with the festival company each year, many others leave this "Shakespeare school" having little experience with the Bard's work." Because of this, the director said. a Shakespearean play has been scheduled into the theater arts agenda every other year, enabling students to work on two Shakespearean productions while w orking towards the four-year four-year baccalaureate degree. ""Twelfth Night" is probably Shakespeare's most perfect comedy." Phillips said. "It is a tale of courtly love, shipwrecks, disguises and mistaken identities, and is proving to be a very enjoyable play to produce." The lighting system in the SL'SC Auditorium is being revamped, making the main stage unavailable for campus-community campus-community productions "We can't use the I'SF theater because of the weather, so the smaller theater is the production site." Phillips said. "This is both a challenge and a tremendously exciting prospect because of the close proximity the players have with the audience." Set in the mythical country of illvria. "Twelfth Night" isn't a product of any particular time, the director said. "There was a county called Illvria in very old Greek maps of the Mediterranean but never a country of that name as far as historians are concerned.'' Phillips said. Sets are being designed by Gary M. Mclntyre. chairman of the SL'SC Theater Department. "The set is purposely nondescript and is built on layers of platforms." the director said. "With a few pieces of scenery the entire set can be changed." Michael Sicotte. SL'SC technical director, is the light designer. Costumes are the creation of Sandra Stiglinski, SUSC eostumer. and will be a combination of Gothic and Medieval designs. "Costumes will be very rustic because the people of Illvria aren't concerned with material things, and they will be very textured. as complicated and layered as the characters themselves." the director explained. Rick Dominguez. a senior theater arts major from I-as Vegas, has been cast as Malvolio. the somber comedian in Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night." The Las Vegas High School graduate was named SL'SC's Actor of the Year in 1981 for his role as Lopahin in "The Cherry Orchard." He will represent SL'SC in University Resident Theater Association auditions this month in Long Beach, Calif., and will direct Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" at SL'SC in April. Suzanne LeClair, Gwen in SL'SC's fall quarter production "The Royal Family." has been cast as Viola. LeClair, a sophomore theater arts major and a Las Vegas High School graduate, plays what the director calls "one of Shakespeare's most demanding roles." "In Shakespeare's day women weren't allowed to be actors so a woman in a play was actually a man." he explained. "In Twelfth Night' Viola-who Viola-who was actually a man was a woman who disguised herself as a man during part of the play. In this production Suzanne must disguise herself to look like Sebastain, Jeff Schneiter, which will be quite a feat because of the closeness of the audience." |