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Show t I THE -81I'H -. - YEAR; - -·-NUMB -ER. - 61-. ----ll@Ef ff iiMEHflHIIM·ilflMM·IHEH·I-----T-H_U_D RS _A_Y,-M-AY-27-, -.99- 3 INSIDE: NEW LIGHTS: Mand:y Gillespie says 11.ppe-r campus is safeT than it once was with the installacion of new lights. SEE PAGE 3. LIBRARY GETS $$: SUUSA Pruident Jason White ha.s donated ~ff1 $.of ,000 co hdp upgrodt the un1wrsit:y's Clffn!nt 1..ibmT,. SEEPAGE 7. ATHLETE OF YEAR: Senior Richanl Barton recently won the prestigious Thunderbird AUM?m far Athleu of the Year. SEE PAGE 10. Mon: than JOO Shalc.dpeattan Fatiual pn/Offllffl and production rn:w membm ff:Cfflrl, arrit.>t.d in Cedar Cir, S1ia.kcspea1't4n Fatim!. Previau pn/armanaJ bqin on Jw~ H 11.rul rhe Fatmd opens on Jw~ 28. to fmpare /or rhe J2rul 11.nnwil Urah Shakespearean Festival prepares for sun1mer BY MARCl BISHOP Thundmird StJJff WriteT A3 srudents prepare m leave the SUU cunpus for the summer months, its most cdebrated i;ummcr oa:upanm are beginning to arrive. The song and dana: of the performers, m.c construction datrer and orb.er i;ouru:li; of the Utah Shabspcarcan Festival (USF) fill the alr as performers and production members prepare for the th.inynd year of what Vern Andason of the A3scx:iattd Pres called a • mca:a for keepers of the Elizabethan flame.• More than 300 femval cootribu n; are arriving in Cedar City to prepare~ r preview performances beginning on June 21, and the Festival'& opening dare on June 28. Douglas T. Kirchner, USF director of marketing and public relations, repon:s that three reruming USF favorites are among tho arriving performers. William Leach, who last year played Shylock in The Merchant of Venice and Glouec5trr in King l..t.m, and Willy Lonun in the 1991 produaion of Death of a Saksm11n, returns th.is summer not only act, but to direct as well. lead, will be directing Ow, Tow.,1, IO be p~nted in the Randall L Jones Theatre, as well s pl vi ng the role of Oscar Wol6 in The Ro:,al famil,. • 1 have en~ my experiences hen: the past twO years, and, with th.is dded djmen.si n of directing, thi.s ummer should be even bctrer, • Aid Leach. Those who en~ Robert Machny as Fali;taff in the 1992 production of The Merry Wiue.s o/ Wind.soT will be happy to near that he i5 rm.iming fur the 199 n to pl y the tide role in Moliere' Tartw{{e. Ma ray has appeared in more than thiny Shakespearean production , cttd at ix Tonyaward-winning th tres, and has been seen on tdcvi.sion in U/e 006 On, Down Home, Rosean~, and in a recurring role on Chars. A long-time favorite of Utah audiences, Patriclc P ge will also return th.is summer after a hian.t of three seasons. Page, who last 1 appeared at the Festival in 1989, has been cast to play the rolci; of Tony Cavendish in The Ro:,al Famil1 and Bolingbroke in Richard II. Sina: im founding in 1961, USF has become one of the 1 t and m t critically acclaimed theatres in the countty, and official.s are prcdictin th this n will again set attendance records. The 1993 5eason will open in the Adams Thcatte on )une 28 with A Mid.sumrn.eT's Night's Dream. Other halce&pearcan productions to be performed in the outdoor Adams Thea'tre are Timon of Athe:N and Richard ll. Plays sch ulcd in the Randall L Jones Theatre incl e Owr Town by Thornton Wilder, Tartuffe by Moliere, and The Ro:,al Famit, by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber. More information is available at the Festival information deslc. in the the Auditorium, nd tickets may be purchased at the x Office, (USF, c.eda.r City, UT 84720; 586-7878). |