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Show Former resident spends summer working for festival urged to contact the Festival Box Office regarding specific ticket availability. ;.;j-;: " . - . -v CEDAR CITY - Leslie R. Robison, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dan A. Robison of Cedar City, is spending this summer as a member of the Utah Shakespearean Festival Company. The annuai festival, which is celebrating its 21st consecutive summer on the campus of Southern Utah State College is expected to attract over 30,000 patrons during the July 15 to August 28 production season, and the festival company of approximately ap-proximately 100 persons is chosen by audition and application from over 1,200 requests. Robison currently a resident of Rockford, 111., is the Costume Designer for "As You Like It." This is her third season with the festival. "I enjoy especially the repertory aspect of the Utah Shakespearean Festival," she said, "it gives each of the company com-pany members opportunity op-portunity to develop skills in more than one area, or to broaden the technical skills which the person brings to the festival." Being produced this summer are "As You Like It", "Henry IV.Part II", "Romeo and Juliet", as well as twice weekly matinee performances of "The Monarchs of England", a program of Elizabethan court music, dancing and poetry. "As You Like It" is also, being presented in matinee each Saturday at 2 p.m. The festival features activities each day of the production season, including in-cluding literary and production seminars, backstage tours and an exhibit hall. Each evening preceding the performance, green show activities include Elizabethan dancing, puppet shows, wandering musicians and colorful vendors, as well as lute and madrigal singing. The 1982 21st anniversary an-niversary season is themed to "The Festival Comes of Age." The season runs from July 15 through Aug. 28, and tickets for 1983 are on sale. "Henry V", "The Merchant of Venice", and "Two Gentlemen of Verona" will run July 14 through August 27, 1983. Contact the Box Office for information. The 1983 season has also been announced and interested persons are Leslie R. Robinson |