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Show 'The Subject Was Roses 9 play-scheduled play-scheduled for April performance Anne Adele Jorgensen, a senior theater arts major from Castle Dale. Jorgensen most recently appeared as Kitty Dean in "The Royal Family" and directed the recent SUSC melodrama "The Drunkard." R. Troy Lunt, Cedar City, is the stage manager for the spring quarter production. Lights are being designed by Todd Ross, Sandy, sound by David Mc-Murtrie, Mc-Murtrie, Salt Lake City, with c costumes by Debra Caliva, La Mirada, Calif. must produce the plays at their own expense. Tickets are $3 for adults, $2.50 for senior citizens and high school students, and $2 for SUSC students. Both "The Subject Was Roses" and "Waiting for Godot" are recommended for mature audiences. "I saw 'The Subject Was Roses' performed several years ago," Nelson said, "and after seven years it's still very much in my mind. It's that memorable that moving." Theater goers, she said, may remember a movie made from the Gilroy script starring Patricia O'Neill, Martin Sheen and Jack Albert-son. Albert-son. Marc Deaton, a senior theater arts major from Elko, is Tommy in Nelson's production. Deaton, a veteran performer per-former at SUSC, most recentlyproduced, directed and performed in a one-man show "A Song of Joy." R. Scott Phillips, theater promotions director at SUSC, plays the role of John, Tommy's Tom-my's father. Phillips just directed Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" for the 1981-82 SUSC campus-community campus-community theater season, and last year appeared in "A Life in the Theater" directed by SUSC graduate Francis Cook. Nettie, the mother in "The Subject Was Roses," is played by CEDAR CITY There are no villains, no bad guys, in Southern Utah State College's April 14, 16, 17 drama "The Subject Was Roses," but a real-life situation where everyone and no one is to blame. Directed by Linda S. Nelson, Ogden, a senior theater arts major at SUSC, the Frank Gilroy play takes place in 1946. It is a tender and lucid play about a father and mother and their pampered pam-pered son who goes off to war and comes home a man of his own, the effects ef-fects of which devastate the family. The student-directed performance begins at 8 p.m. each evening in the SUSC Studio Theater. "Waiting for Godot," directed by SUSC senior Rick Dominguez, will be presented there April 12-13. 12-13. Tickets for the two dramatic presentations are available by calling the SUSC Box Office, 586-7876, 586-7876, from 1 to 5 p.m. weekdays and from 1 to 8 p.m. on days of performance. per-formance. Because these are student productions, the price of admission isn't included in season campus-community passes, and the students |