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Show ""V " y V" jy m'-- 'pi ""yi1 nr y 'W"tyn y y i Togetherness Flourishing At Shakespeare Festival By George Rame theater where another set is ready and waiting Tribune Staff Writer CEDAR CITY There's, a staying in Cedar City: Good morning, or, or, Thanks lor Enjoy youielf, cornin. There's an Cedar in atmosphere a hgnt in the genial face of the people is as luminous as the ember-re- d rock clitfs that sandwich the city. There's a festival in Cedar City: the ninth annual Utah Shakespearean Festival, on the campus of Soukem Utah State College. A Wood tockian esprit flourishes there . . . people come together for shakespear's sake with a love for some of the most meaningful poetry ever written. City : Richard Opens Festival Fred C. goateed Adams is your host. He is the founding producer of the festival and director of drama at the college. Mr. Adams directed the festivals opening production last Thursday, Richard III," which has gone into repertory with the witty Merry Wives of Windsor" an. Twelfth Night. The plays will continue through Aug. 8, running on nights, except Sunday, beginning at 8:30 p.m. Site of the performances is a outdoor theater in a peninsula of brick buildings; sound projects with crystal clarity in the warm evening still. (In case of rain, the company is prepared to take the play to the adjacent college Ever-.nulin- William Fenno portrays Festo In Utah Shakespearean Festival production of I Twelfth Night." The festival Is to continue through Au&. 8, also playing I Merry Wives of Windsor and Richard An Elizabethan air flourishes. m." ) It tv a lucid sense of community, behind thorough protessionalism, that makes the festival woik. Actors, directors and technicians from around the country and Europe are made completely at ease. They may own to diverse beliefs and lifestyle-- , and come from mctedibly alien backgrounds, but Cedar City oiens its arms. It was a like togetherness that n 1897 was behind the establishment of the college. Then, the Utah State Legislature declared that any rural community that ptovide a single, first facility could have a college. Homes were mortgaged and lui-iewere Old Main," minimized. that budding, still stands on the campus. The smallest of the states r colleges lias an expected fall enrollment of 1,800 students. In 1965 the then College of Southern Utah turned front r a junior, college to a four-yea- r plan. On July 1, 1969, the name was changed to Southern Utah State College. President is Dr. Royden C. Braithw aite. s fi-- 't four-yea- two-yea- New Complex Planned a student cenbut is now outdated. A new complex is projected and hoped for, but Cedar City, like other southern Utah communities, is in a continuous for funds with Growing increasingly, ter was completed in 500-se- 1962, the Wasatch Front. However, a new. permanent structure for the nationally respected festi-Se- e Page E-- Column 1 8, x :pf r if ' ' I , Zf k S .... L , f ,V .T ( "f k iP r. fr I 0. A s )a & I 0 V- - .. -vr a ' ; p 'tA, .. . t t" $ ... f It Bob Miller, left, is Evans, Bruce H. Boyer Dr. Curio in Merry Wives of Windsor. is Lynn Jamieson plays Mistress Ford and Heidi Mefford is cast as Mis- - I Richard Jamieson, left, is cast as the great Falstaff in Merry of Windsor." Others are tress Page in Merry Wives" in the ninth Utah Shakespearean Festival. 'I'" ' ' M -- i 1 Johah Royster (Bardolph), Diana Lawrence (Mistress Quick-Wivly, William Fenno (Pistol), r ommg Ha Grand oasnina oi us nG"jesi liransn slops at Halley Fair mil mntfay.!!iiy27iii Shop for the best in good literature at Deseret Book Downtowny Cottonwood Mall and Valley Fair Mall vbllbj pair 3S00 South 2700 West t 4(1 lu f es |