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Show H3 The Salt Lake Tribune TRAVEL Sunday L.A.Visitors Find Surprises in Utah — Art on Exhibit Around the U.S Unsurpassed Scenery and Shakespeare No plays on Sunday, so Cedar Breaks puts on a spectacular showofits own BY VANI RANGACHAR LOS ANGE! LES TIMES erties with Elizabethan connections? I had expected quaint and touristy, and found a quiet town CEDAR CITY — I am sitting wherelife is not total Bard-om. The festival is big business idly beneath the shade ofa tall here, nevertheless. In its first twoweek season in I$ three of 8 pine, seeking relief from the daytime temperature of 104 while watching two teen-agers gestur- Shakespeare's plays were staged on a small outdoor stage by an armyof volunteers and town residents: 3,276 people attended Last year, the Utah Shakespear- ing wildly and talking in exaggerated tones. The language they ae is English, but odd to the “pehind me rise the brick and half-timbered wallsof a building ean Festival drew 135,000 playgo- ers during its 10-week season And there are plans to build an resembling the Old Globe Theater Elizabethanvillage abouttwo city in London. Strolling the grounds blocks long. On the campus of Southern are peddlers, simply costumed in peasant blouses and long skirts, with flower wreaths entwined in Utah University, tall evergreens shade the courtyard adjacent to their hair. They are carrying bas- two of the three theaters where the plays are staged: the 887-seat kets and barking out to passersby their wares of pastries, candies and other edible treats and souvenirs. Adams Memorial Shakespearean Theatre, which is outdoors, and The two teen-agers are drama the indoor Auditorium Theatre. The 769-seat Randall L. Jones doors. The peddlers are costumed workers. And a ridge of ruststained rock rising to the east of Theatre, built in 1989, has superb acoustics. The Adams, experts have said, is a good replication of the original Globe; the BBC came students rehearsing a scene out- town reminds me that | am atthe here a few years ago to useit in filming a Shakespeare documentary Utah Shakespearean Festival held on the campus of Southern Utah University in CedarCityev- ery summer. Forus, the plays were the thing — the entire thing — and that was On this midsummer’s day my teen-age daughter, Meera, and | mistake No. 2 The festival has much tooffer are surrounded by the works of besides p! William Shakespeare, and the hot air is saturated with thespian possibilities. I was surprised to learn of the festival from a colleague, and was even more surprised to hear that it has gone on here every summer for 37 years. Who knew? We missed the lit- Its more famous and older next companiedby quotatic ing at the Brick House C simple coffeehouse decorated with ceramics done by local art ists. For lunch we ate from the concession at thefestival will shuts dewnexcept for a couple of No. 3. lottesville. Ho Jay through S sion is free. 804-924 @ Montreal: A major loan from the Fondation Maeght andvarious European and North American collections, Giacomet t’s style integrates influences a- from to Cedar Breaks National Monument understatement when yousee the steep and deep chasmat the na- tional monument. Having been an beautyof the West, and in particular the Southwest. Standing at the edge of the massive red rock ‘oun! 6-Oct. 16 will be tions are all world-class. Ticket John,” prices are similar too. Meera and I came here for a three-dayfix, and as a result gave the dramaworthyfestival and the scenic surroundings short shrift. That was my first mistake. skipped. The history was staged der a warmnight sky. Theair felt hot and thick with the threat of a storm. But we hardlynoticed, so completely absorbed were we in the tale. We saw three Shakespeare plays in 48 hours. By the beginning of our second performance Perched at an elevation of 5,800 feet, Cedar City lies just off 1-15 betweenthe Escalante Desert and the Markagunt Plateau of the weekend, Meera turned to about a 450-mile drive from Los Angeles. It was founded by Mor- me and said with shy enthusiasm, Let’s comehack here next year.” mon pioneers sent by Brigham Young to mine the nearby high country for iron ore. My first sight of Cedar City, population about 28,000, was a strip of hotels Westayedtwo nights at the Ab- beyInn, a comfortable, clean and highwaytook us through two tun- nels hewn out of the mountain. and spit us out facing the awesome red cliffs of Zion Canyon. carved by the Virgin River. | looked down at the water. It looked like a paltry creek; this wore away these sheer 2,000- to 3,000-foot walls? Frederick Vining Fisher, a Methodist minister passing this way in the late 1800s, was seized with a religious fever when he gazed at the wondersofZion; he named some of its rock forma tions the Angel’s Throne, the Al. tar of Sacrifice, the Great White and clustered fast-food joints. Where were the B&Bs with the Throne, the West Temple. As I drove out ofthe park head cute puns in their names, the eat- ed for 1-15 and home, | was simi- larly uplifted. Shakespeare and Zion, of Southe niversity at W. Cent 351 Cedar City. It runs day. Next year, a fall sea- prices: $10-$38; shows higher; Green $1 Vcaan sack rte Al peteeLY BUDGET TRAVEL s RS ueR eae Bre res * ne fob only se 0Task opens $05 na ced (888) 423-3438 oe PAOL com 2906 S. 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More Information: Utah Trav wonders of the Western World. 1900 garurday 47 canh eck Daily 830 am& 5:30 oe Montreal and 11 a.m. to 9 the Permanent Collection” at the - $86 double in town: nd seminars free; back- a perfect pairing for two WENDOVER SILVERSMITH/STATELINE West, p.m. Wednesdays. adults $10. studen IF YOU GO Utah Shakespearean Festi- few dozen miles later in Zion Na in the outdoor Adams Theater un 18 at the Montreal brooke St. $5, children $2 1600 @ New York pinaee and Text Orientalist Works oa Paper From Theatre. But our hands-down favorite the snake of cars on Utah 9. The Through Oct. through Sundays Los Angeles Greenshow dancer kicks up her heels prior to eveningplay. among them seminars and bac stage tours. Like Ashland, Cedar City’s plays, casts and produc- tional Park. We paid the $10 entrance fee to the park and joined and Hours: 11 a.m. to6 p.m. Tuesday late June through early Septem ber, with plays staged every day Eventhat view was upstaged a African Museum of Fine Arts, 1380 Sher spires and columns, I could only stare and gasp. tuated with arches, dainty rock surrealism, Oceanic art and usually features elongated human figures Utah Highway 14 andclimbing a vast 2 retro- ings by Alberto Giacometti is on view at the Montreal Museumof Fine Arts. The 169 works are on Planning our route home, I decided on a detour, heading east on landscape here “breaks.” Rugby ‘Road, Char spective of sculpture and draw- try’s newest national monument feet tech Through Sept Art Muse! The city is surrounded by na- tional parks only short driving distances away. Zion National Park and the Grand Canyon lie to south, the alpine meadows of Dixie National Forest to the west and north, and to the east Bryce Canyon National Park and the counGrand Staircase-Escalante tional Monument On the University of Virginia’s Bayly and tookin the next day’s matinee performance of “The Taming of the Shrew” in the Auditorium King printuna in the show. night with “Romeo and Juliet’ which we had almost discuss niques and the seminars. | thought there was lit val: Thefestival is on the ¢ eepue was the performance of others. spt. 6 at 2 p.m, Stephen Margu lies, whe organized theexhibition and limestone amphitheater more than a mile deep and punc- festival's popularity. And the two festivals share many featur cht Durer, Lucas and many tle to do but pack up our playbills and go home. That was mistake Basterner for most of my life, I was woefully naive about the summer Night's Dream.” Meera and | started on Friday by lo Picasso, Isabel Bishop, Faith Sunday is truly a day ofre Feaste, a five-course meal(eaten. antics of characters from “A Mid- s stine de Pzar ted from the tion, include van Leyden. Kathe Kollwitz, Pab- Utah, and the festival ba another 5,000 as- cribed to wome ries. The works d recommendedbythe festival In the heat, we ate breakfasts and lunches. The Mormon pioneers who season (eight monthsvs. 10 weeks in Utah) and bigger audiences. But the full-house crowds at July performances attest to the Utah roles other chain motels ‘hoos in town, and a smattering of camethis waycalled the badlands Festival in Ashland, has a longer Images of Wome: door) near theI-15 exit. There are nars and play orientations because we didn’t have the time. 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