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Show Shakespearean Festival Opens Finishing touches are being added to productions scheduled for the first annual Utah Shakespearean Shakes-pearean Festival which will open with the presentation of 'The Taming of the Shrew" Monday, July 2, on the College of Southern South-ern Utah campus. Activities preceeding the performance per-formance will begin at 8 p. m. and will Include dancing and music typical of the Elizabethan period. Play-goers will be called to their seats by the traditional trumpet fanfare used In Shakespeare's Shakes-peare's day. The comedy Inaugurating Inaug-urating the Festival will begin at 8:30 p. m. The tragedy "Hamlet'' will be presented Tuesday, July 3 and . 'Merchant of Venice" will round out the play series Wednesday, I July 4. "Taming of the Shrew" will again be presented Thursday, Thurs-day, July 5 with the other two productions following in the same order Friday and Saturday, July 6 and 7. The same schedule will be repeated beglnlng Monday, Mon-day, July 9 and continuing through Saturday, July 14. Pre-play Pre-play entertainment will begin at 8 p. m. each evening. The productions will be staged on an authentic tiring house setting which has been construt-ed construt-ed among the pine trees on the CSU campus Just south of the Libary Lounge Patio. Costumes , valued at more than $24,000 will add further realism to the plays being produced In a manner identical with those In Elizabethan Eliza-bethan times. Refreshments will be sold during ltermissions by gaily attired vendors. Fred Adams, Festival Director, advised tho.Te planning to attend t the plays to order tickets in advance ad-vance from the CSU Boxoffice. He said that only 300 seats have been provided for each erform-ance erform-ance to insure everyone a good seat. Mr. Adams suggested that play-goers should wear wraps suitable to the cool evenings usually us-ually experienced in Cedar City. TAKE LEADS IN PLAY. Gaylynn Sherratt, Cedar City, and Norman Childs, Lchi, portray roles In Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew," which will be first production of the Utah Shakespearean Festival Monday, July 2. |