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Show I Shakespearean Expert Will Appear At Cedar City Drama Festival in 1964 A. J. R. Master, MBE, Governor Gover-nor of the Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-On-Avon, England, will appear as a lecturer and i director of the Utah Shakespear-j Shakespear-j an Festival in Cedar City in the summer of 19t4, it was announc- ed this week by Fred Adams, festival director. I Mr. Master is considered to be 'one of the outstanding authorl-; authorl-; ties of Elizabethan drama. He is j a founder of the East African Shakesperean Festival and has j been honored by the Queen of England. He is also a member of the Order of the British Empire. The prominent Englishman was attracted to the Utah Festival Fes-tival by Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Crichton of Cedar City, who are personal friends of Mr. Masters. Mr. Crichton and Mrs. Mastrv were military associates in the Royal Alt Force during World War I. Chairman Mr. Crichton Is serving as chairman of the Festival committee com-mittee organized by the Chamber Cham-ber of Commerce. Mr. Adams announced that plans for the first annual Festival Fes-tival to hi; staged in July of this year, are progressing very well. A number of contracts have been signed With actors who will participate par-ticipate In the summer's productions produc-tions of "Taming of the Shrew," "Merchant of Venice" and "Hamlet." "Ham-let." The plays will be staged outdoors out-doors and will run from July 1 through July 14. The plans have been so scheduled sche-duled as to allow visitors to see all three productions on successive succes-sive evenings. Production of 'Taming of the Shrew" will open the Festival on July 2. On July 3 "Hamlet" will be presented, followed on the 4th by the "Merchant of Venice." The sequence will be re- peated four different times, Mr. Adams stated, with the final production to be staged on Saturday, Sa-turday, July 14. Two complete scries' of the three plays will be run each of the two weeks. Promotion of the Utah Shakesperean Shakes-perean Festival is already underway under-way and it is hoped will bring a wide response throughout the summer series. A Replica of Era Admission charges will be made to make the annual productions pro-ductions authentic and an exact replica of the Shakesperean era. The stage used for these plays is an exact replica of the tiring house used by William Shakespeare Shakes-peare in the ICth century. Blueprints Blue-prints and photostats of the original orig-inal were obtained from the Royal Roy-al Archives in London and Ashland, Ash-land, Oregon Shakespearen Festival. Fes-tival. The tiring house forms an excellent ex-cellent background for Shakespeare Shake-speare and delightfully entices an audience to use its imagination imagina-tion instead of having each scene carefully constructed, Mr. Adams pointed out. He also stated that the tiring house is the only authentic structure of Its tye to be found in an educational theatre in the United States. |
