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Show southern Utah State plans prod Tragi-comedy Waiting for Godot9 different says student director CEDAR CITY Audiences willing to accept something different dif-ferent will enjoy Southern Utah State College's April 12-13 student-directed student-directed production "Waiting for Godot." Directed by Rick Dominguez, a senior theater arts major from Las Vegas, the Nobel Prize-winning production will be produced in cooperation with the West Coast Experimental Theater, Las Vegas. Curtain is at 8 p.m. in the SUSC Studio Theater. "The Subject Was Roses," directed by SUSC student Linda S. Nelson, follows April 14, 16 and 17. Tickets are available $3 for adults, $2.50 for high school students and senior students, and $2 for SUSC students at the SUSC Box Office, 586-7876. 586-7876. "Because these are student productions, the price of admission isn't included , in seasonal campus-community passes," said R. Scott Phillips, theater promotions coordinator at SUSC. "Student directors must foot the production bills themselves." them-selves." Billed as a tragicomedy, tragi-comedy, Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" can't be compared com-pared to any other theater work because its purpose is so different, the director said. "To some people 'Waiting for Godot' is an extremely religious play, to some it is the quintessence quin-tessence of existentialism, existen-tialism, and to others it's a sort of postscript to Dante's 'Interno'," Dominguez said. Basically, "Waiting for Godot" is about two dilapidated bums who fill their lives as painlessly as they can, waiting for Godot, a personage who will explain their endless insignificance, or put an end to it. "For the most part it is a slow play because Beckett's tempo is purposefully tedious and slow, the impulse of his drama is silence," Dominguez said. Both "Waiting for Godot" and "The Subject Was Roses" are suggested for mature audiences, not necessarily because of the language, . but because young people won't understand and won't enjoy them. Dominguez' cast includes in-cludes Mark Seedig, Pampa, Texas, as Didi. Seedig, most recently seen as Herbert Dean in "The Royal Family," was the assistant stage manager for SUSC's most recent campus-community campus-community production "Twelfth Night." He is a junior theater arts major at SUSC. Kenneth W. Adams, a senior theater arts major from Amarillo, Texas, plays Gogo. Adams has appeared in several SUSC productions, most recently in "The Drunkard." Also appearing in "Waiting for Godot" is Troy Hofheins, Cedar City. Monte Downs, Amarillo, is the stage manager for the production. Shannon Scruggs, another Amerillo College transfer, tran-sfer, is the set designer, with lights by Todd Ross, Sandy, and sound by David McMurtrie, Salt Lake City. Debra Caliva, la Mirada, Calif., is the costumer. Dominguez is a 1978 graduate of Las Vegas High School where he received honors as Best Actor. He most recently appeared as Malvolio in "Twelfth Night" at SUSC, and has been selected as an actor with the Utah Shakespearean Festival this summer. Dominguez has appeared in several SUSC productions, including roles as "A" in "Theater 1" and Molloy in "The Rock Sucker" for SUSC |