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Show I Program provides reality flexible. "VVo A fails worked do can be cha :' ThedepartmCeh g;. Possibility of h H S the ;here aren't a; have ever had People Margetts explain tor a person tn 'i help, the stude;; By SUSAN MITCHELL Chronicle Staff Students often complain that most college work doesn t provide the experience they need to get a job when they graduate. The Department of Theater is trying to remedy that. Beginning autumn quarter of 1972 a degree for a Master of Fine Arts in theater performance per-formance will be offered by the University. The theee-year program is designed to give more concentrated con-centrated study to the students to prepare them for the real world of acting, according to Dr. Ralph Margetts. The program will in-' in-' volve 15 to 20 graduate and senior students who will be selected in tryouts on May 3. These students will study and work together exclusively for the next three years. "During the first year, the students will not be allowed to take part in any productions. They will study speech and interpretation, in-terpretation, movement, theater history, etc. They will remain together for four or five hours a day and the professors will go to them," Dr. Margetts said. The second year will involve more advanced study on those subjects. By the third year the group should be organized into a unified ensemble that will be used as a professional acting company for the main stage in Pioneer Memorial Theatre. Dr. Margetts explained that the program is experimental and , |