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Show ,, ( Fry NowPay Later! See Dr. Lynn G. Cranmer Southern Utah Dermatology • Skin Cancer • Acne • Specializing in Skin Diseases 586-6440 • Cedar City 150 Altamira Ave., Suite 900 Plays in Progress to begi~ (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1) is not a political drama, but a human, personal drama with political ramifications. This will be the first reading of the play that Crawford finished during the 1992 Festival season. One Family (August 26 and 27) will be directed by Robert Machray and takes place during an anticipated barbecue on the backyard patio of a Phoenix publisher and his wife and follows the idiosyncrasies, opinions, and relationships of the hosts and their guests. Playwright Jim Leonard also wrote The Diviners and They Dance Real Slow in Jackson. It should be remembered, noted Festival officials, that the plays in this series are written for an adult contemporary audience and contain strong and abrasive language that some may find offensive. "The purpose of the New Plays-inProgress readings," according to R. Scott Phillips, managing director, Ris to introduce, explore, and develop new plays and playwrights. Eventually, a third theatre will be part of our Center for the Performing Arts and will be a place where we can help playwrights develop their new works and present them to the public: "We are excited about this new offering of the Festival; said Fred C. Adams, Festival founder and executive producer. "It is a chance tor Festival audiences to see some of the best works of the best playwrights writing today-and to see how that creative process works." "It is worth remembering," added Phillips, "that all of the classic plays we are currently presenting in the Adams Shakespearean Theatre and the Randall L. Jones Theatre were once new plays, evoking the same doubts, concerns, questions, and excitement that the new plays of today offer. We hope that audiences will find these new plays and playwrights as interesting, challenging, rewarding, and worth supporting as we at the Festival do." Further information about the 1993 New Plays-in-Progress readings is available by calling the Festival at 801-586· 7880. Further information about the other plays being presented this season (Shakespeare's A Midsummer Nighrs Dream, Richard It; and Timon of Athens; Thornton Wilder's Our Town; Moliere's Tartuffe, and George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber's The Royal Family) can be obtained by calling the Festival box office at 801586-7878. Remember the Bard with mementos from ihe open 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Saturday north of the Adams Theatre ,1s1 see Shakespeare items in the SUU Bookstore open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondtiy through Friday and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays in the Student Center. Featuring: Books, shirts, novelty items PAGE 4 • THE SUMMERBIRD |