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Show Festival Makes Expansion Plans 1 The Utah Shakespearean Festival is taking on a new look. In its sixth season, the annual three-play summer event will utilize a greatly ! enlarged, refurbished set, new music pavilion for the Festival Festi-val Orchestra, and a specially designed area for the Elizabethan Eliza-bethan dancers. The audience area has also been expanded with the addition of new I risers to accommodate 450 j seats. Although occupying more than twice the space of the original set built for the Festival Fes-tival in its first season in 1962, the tiring house, which has be'en built from the ground up for each of the six seasons, remains basically I of the same design and duplicates dup-licates the architecture and specifications of the original Plays of the current season will use the stage in numerous ways. It will appear as a boat, in the storm scene from ! "The Tempest," and then for the next scene become a desert des-ert island. It will serve as Denmark for "Hamlet," and j will also be seen as a battle-field, battle-field, a graveyard, and the bedroom of a queen. In "The Comedy of Errors," the same set will be transformed into Elizabethan playhouses. The details and scenic designs are taken from drawings of the authentic Shakespearean sets found in the Royal Archives in England. Stage Dimensions The set is presently 75 feet wide, 30 feet deep, with a 20 foot apron. Some of the additions were made last sea-i sea-i son, such as a new, fully carpeted car-peted stage floor and new curtains and drapes. The simplicity sim-plicity and utilitarian qual-( qual-( ities of hte design lend them-ities them-ities of the design lend them-for them-for the one basic set. The stage provides a wide variety of playing areas and possible entrnceas. A single soliloquy, a crowded mob scene, or a fast-paced dueling exhibition can be performed in the same area and achieve the desired effect. a busy, bustling, bawdy Italian Ital-ian street. Company Facilities Other new features of the set include an adjacent property prop-erty area and dressing room as well as facilities for the stage manager. New wardrobe ward-robe racks have been installed and a place provided where actors can wait comfortably for entrances. The net was originally designed de-signed by Gary Mclntyre, a student of Professor Fred C. Adams, founding director of the Festival. Mr. Mclntyre served as technical director for the first two seasons. The present set has been constructed under the supervision super-vision of George Amerman, CSU technical director. Production Pro-duction dates for the current season are July 13 through August 5. |