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Show The Thundcrhird Monday Marcfi 3, 1986 Page 9 Romeo and Juliet comes to SUSC stage Friday BY DANIEL MC VEY SUSCs theatre arts and dance departments production of Romeo and Juliet enters its final rehearsals this week. go wrong, I (Juliet) will kill myself. She explained how she prepared for the role, I read everything could on Romeo and Juliet. I drove interlibrary loan crazy. I read about 30 articles." She says that Juliet is her most 1 The show has been an ambitious undertaking. This is probably the most difficult show Ive ever done in my life, says R. Scott Phillips, the shows director. Every night I go to rehearsals thinking, Im not capable, but then I see moments starting to work. The show is difficult for various reasons, one of which is a very large cast, including community people as well as SUSC students and faculty. Phillips worked with student choreographer Cindy Robertson and fight choreographers Bob Miles and David Boushev, of the Utah Shakespearen Festival. Another problem is the language itself, which can be difficult to understand. Julianne Crofts, who plays Juliet, says that to play the character she had to think back to the first time she was kissed. It was frightening, she says. Juliet has to deal with death for the first time. When things She is very single-minde- difficult role so far. Juliet is more complex and more of a challange than people think. She is very honest and truthful, and very passionate. Theres no wav to grasp it all. She has a singleness of purpose. Michael Stiver plays Romeo. Stiver that playing Romeo is a very different type of role for him. "Romeo is a very big, very complex character. He is a lot more rash than I am. The play occupies my mind 24 hours a day. I cant go to bed without running lines. Ph.Il ips says that the play is very universal, everyone can identify with the story of first love. I am not trying to direct the definitive Romeo and Juliet. Everyone has their own image of what Juliet should be, but 1 want to capture the essence of what Juliet should be. "The play is not smooth, it has hard edges. Thillips has tried to show this in every aspect of the play, including the music and set. Our students dont have a lot of chances to clo classics, said Phillips. . The faculty works with Shakespeare all ; summer, and sometimes we dont want to deal with it during the year. But I feel its a need of the students, and its a - show Ive always wanted to direct. Romeo and Juliet opens Friday, March i 7 and continues on Mar. 8, 13, 14, IS. For ticket information or reservations contact the theatre box office at says ' Michael J. Stiver is Romeo and Julianne Crofts is Juliet in the lovers that opens here Friday. Shakespeare classic of star-crosse- d 586-787- Gallery to open new exhibit The senior portfolio of SUSC student Mark R. Jones will be exhibited March at the Brathwaite Fine Arts Gallery. Celebration 45, the 4 5 rh Cedar City Annual Art Exhibit, will also be shown. Jones has studied each field of art offered at SUSC including drawing and painting, graphics and design, ceramics and sculpture, and high school art education. The Cedar City exhibit is the oldest annual community-suppor- t art exhibit in the western U. S., according to Cedar City Art Committee Chairman Barbara Starr. The Cedar City Art Committee is a organization, financially supported by private community donations and by grants from the Utah Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. The objective of the committee is to provide a quality visual forum for artists and the public. Initiated by the Cedar Ciry Junior High School art faculty in 1940, the show has been held annually, except in 1944 during World War II. In conjunction with the Womens Fine Arts Guild, the first show featured 112 paintings from Utah artists and others around the country. After the first two years, the committee members felt a need for wider community involvement. The Cedar City Coordinating Council then appointed a fine arts committee whose purposes include the establishment of an annual art exhibit and the challenge to work and a gallery 8 non-prof- Ceramic fish tiles by Mark R. Jones is just one piece which is part of the neiv exhibit in the Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery showing Mar. it where the collection would be housed and the annual exhibit hung. Financed initially by interested citizens, major support now comes form establishments such as the Cedar City Chamber of Commerce, SUSC and the Iron County School District. Donations and contributions come from private citizens and through the purchase of art from the show. The Arts Committee Collection is currently housed within the Iron County Shool District. Various paintings and sculptures can be found in buildings throughout the community. Jones 20 piece exhibit will include oil paintings, contour drawings, photographs, stone sculpture and ceramics and will be shown in the small gallery adjacent to Celebration 45 . A public reception will be held March 6 at p.m. in the gallery to celebrate the dual opening. Jones graduated from Cedar High in 1980 where he was active in the fine arts. Jones says he enjoys working with both complex geometric shapes and with subtle, organic forms. Jones is especially fond of the works of M.C. Escher, and one of the pieces in his student show, ceramic tiles based on an original drawing of Eschers, was made in conjunction with a large 9 feet by 14 feet floor that he designed and constructed for the entryway of his parents home. 9 |