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Show The SummerbirdiJPage 5 Silver Anniversary season slated Utah Shakespearean Festival marks 25th year with three popular plays The Utah Shakespearean Festival is celebrating 25 consecutive years of Shakespeare in Cedar City, and special events and activities are scheduled weekly throughout the 1986 silver anniversary summer A Shower of Silver and special musical fanfare will open the festival July 10, preceded by a Special Opening Night Renaissance Feaste The Cedar City Processional Parade is scheduled July 12 at 10am, and the Highland Heritage Festival will be held July 1 1 and 12 In addition to evening performances of the three Shakespearean plays, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Julius Caesar and Love's Labour's Lost, matinees of A Midsummer Night's Dream will be staged each Saturday and Wednesday beginning July 19, and A Royal Tea, the Festival's musical matinee with poetry and refreshments, will be presented Mondays and d Thursdays beginnings July 28 A new indoor set in place for the 1985 Festival matinee season contributed to a strong growth in last summer's matinee program, and use of the this indoor set is expected to contribute to increased matinee attendance again this summer, offering a theatre experience for people who prefer daytime hand-crafte- entertainment The Festival greenshow, which traditionally precedes each evening's performance, will again ofter audiences the opportuinty to wander through the Utah Symphony concert will benefit Festival Music written for plays of William Shakespeare, along with selections from the Bard's poetry, will highlight a special benefit concert to be presented July 15 by the Utah Symphony and the Triad Center in honor of the 35th anniversary of the Utah Shakespearean Festival The program, which begins at 8.30 p m in the Triad Theatre, will include music by such masters as Mendelssohn and Nicolai, along with readings from Shakespeare's sonnets and plays. A festival actress portraying Queen Elizabeth will also make a special appearance, and silver fireworks are scheduled to cap off the evening The orchestra will be under the direction of Charles Ketchum, the associate conductor The narration and readings will be delivered by Fred C. Adams, the festival's producting director, along with Jesse Bennett, Richard Hill and Carol Lynn Pearson Carol Nixon, director of the Utah Arts Council, will welcome the audience The concert is designed to be a musical salute to 25 years of artistic achievement by the Cedar d festival "This concert is not only honoring the people who work for the Festival today, but everyone who has ever worked to make this Festival a success," Adams said "The emphasis at this concert will be on the music, inspired by Shakespeare's words for over 400 years," said Adams Tickets to the concert cost $15, $10 and $7 50 For tickets or further information, contact I City-base- 575-512- 5 courtyard for various events and performances Under the direction of Douglas H Baker, a community of players will interact with the audience as the players present mime, wandering musicians, jugglers, acrobats, puppets and Maypole dancing and Punch and Judy Typical Elizabethan market refreshments may be purchased from costumed Elizabethan vendors For the second season the Festival will be hosting the Renaissance Feaste, a gourmet Elizabethan dining experience presided over by a raucus entertainment company and The Lord of the Revals. The Renaissance Feaste is offered each Tuesday and Friday beginning July 11, with a special opening night Feaste Thursday July 10. A weekend of community activity including a Renaissance Faire, Highland Heritage Festival and Parade is planned under the direction of the Cedar City Celebration Committee and Southern Utah State College New to the Festival this summer are Old English Progresses, daily escorted picnic parties to Bryce Canyon, Zion Canyon and other points of interest in Southern Utah Sponsored by the SUSC Division of Continuing Education in cooperation with the Utah Shakespearean Festival, these parties are scheduled July 10 through August 30, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday to Brcye Canyon and Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday to Zion Canyon Departure each morning from the Festival parking lot, and transportation, English picnic necessary Round-tri- p and instructor provided For further information call weekdays (801) 586-785- 3 A Mudsumnici Night's Dream is a play about magic It is the lightest and in many respects the most purely playful of Shakespeare's plays, and presents possibly for the first time Shakespeare's conviction that the world of the senses in which we live is but the surface of an unseen world by which the action of men are affected This summer's production is directed by Libby Appel, dean and artistic director of the Theatre School at California Institute for the Arts She is remembered at the Utah Shakespearean Festival for her critically acclaimed production of Troilus and Cressida in 1984 Julius Caesar has been continuously popular since it Festival favorite, 1986 will was written A long-tim- e mark the third production of the play in Cedar City Julius Caesar retains the broad outlines of Roman history and shows us Caesar as a colussus, even though he appears in only a few scenes Mam concern of the play is with the nature of those who assassinate Caesar, and with the avenging destiny which follows and destroys the assassins Michael Addison, professor of drama at the University of California San Diego, is directing the Festival's 1986 production Addison was the first guest director to ever mount a Festival production, early Festival friends will remember his staging of Othello in 1963 He also played Caesar in Antony and Cleopatra the same year Love's Labour's Lost is a comedy with a message It is filled with verbal extravagances, puns and conceits and profuse use of rhyme Wit and wisecracking delight us as young men decide to forgo the association of women and devote their time to studies and learning When beautiful young ladies enter the scene, results are hilarious if predictable, and by play's end the cold light of reality brings maturity to the frivolous young people Sanford Robbins, chairman of the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukewill oversee the Festival's 25th anniversary production Robbins e, IP IH III NMII4 t.wmn IIIIIHPMI MIIB MU t m Midsummer Night's Dream, Julius Caesar and Love's Labour's Lost highlight the season. A served as casting director for the 1985 Utah Shakespearean Festival, and is previously remembered for his successful Festival production of The Taming of the Shrew in 1984 Along with the plays, a bevy of activities are also scheduled to mark the Silver Anniversary Monday July 14 is Reunion Day. The original 1962 company will be invited back as guests of the Festival, receiving special acknowledgement during the traditional Cedar City "Thank You Night" performance Cake and beverages will be served to all audience members that night, and Cedar City residents are offered a $2 per ticket discount Tuesday July 22 is City Celebration Day. Cedar City businessmen and citizens will particiapate in special tree planting, promotions in retail stores, window s. displays, entertainments and free food Planned 30 Children's is Wednesday July Day activities include a Shakespearean presentation by children, early English childrens' games scheduled near the Shakespeare Theatre Building, a special dress-u- p room where children can try on costumes and handle stage properties, have pictures taken and participate in workshops presented by Festival actors and personnel On that day only, every adult accompanied by a child will receive a half price admission for the matinee performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream Thursday, August 7 offers a dream vacation During that evening's performance two ticket numbers will be diawn, offering the recipients a complete vacation package to the 1987 Utah Shakespearean Festival Included in the gift will be theatre tickets for all three 1987 production (The Comedy Of Errors, Richard III give-away- (continued on page 6) |