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Show it ' ' ' ' 'v'-A l A.Y - - v 1 . Ci.iw jtt ,' . -Tf 'j T (3 PREPARE TIRING HOUSE. Technical director, George Amerman (dark glasses), glas-ses), discusses construction plans for Tiring House for Shakespearean Festival Fest-ival with Charles Webster (seated), and Greg Kollenborn. Enlarged Stage Being Readied By Festival Men With just one week until opening, the Utah Shakespearean Shakespear-ean Festival technicians have been working 14 hours a day in order in insure authenticity authen-ticity and perfection to the season's three productions, "Comedy of Errors," "The Tempest," and "Hamlet". Many of the technicians have returned to the Festival after having participated in years past. George Amerman, Technical Director of the Festival and teacher at the College of Southern Utah, has supervised the construction of the stage which has been enlarged to be approximately the same size as the original Elizabethan Elizabeth-an Tiring House stages. He has also renovated the audience audi-ence area so that it now seats 550 people. Another of his many responsibilities has been to enlarge the music pavilion, pa-vilion, giving more room to the Festival orchestra and dancers. Mr. Amerman, who will return to his teaching position po-sition in the fall, directed Arthur Ar-thur Miller's, "The Crucible", last year at CSU and designed design-ed all of the settings used last year by the Campus-Community Theatre. Downing Cless, a member of last year's technical staff, has returned to this year's Festival to serve as Stage Manager. Mr. Cless, who is currently a graduate grad-uate student at Brandies University Un-iversity in Massachusetts, is directly responsible for all action ac-tion that takes place on stage once the Festival opens. During Dur-ing the rehearsal preceding opening he is responsible to see that the acting company works and maintains discipline. disci-pline. Miss Cherry Joe Strawn, a recent graduate of the University Univer-sity of California at Riverside, is again with the Festival as prop mistress. Miss Strawn will be traveling to Europe for graduate study when the Festival Fes-tival closes its season. In her current capacity with the Festival Fes-tival Miss Strawn is in charge of obtaining, constructing and maintaining all of the props that will be used in the three shows. Another returning Festival technician is Peter Cordelia from Las Vegas. Mr. Cordelia is precently a student at the College of Southern Utah. He is now in his third season with the Festival. Coming to the Festival this season as a stage technician is Greg Kollenborn of the University Uni-versity of California at Riverside. River-side. Mr. Kellenborn served with the Festival last season as an actor. During the past year he has served as assistant assist-ant designer and technical director di-rector at the University of California at Riverside. When the Festival season closes this year, he will go to West Germany Ger-many to study technical theatre the-atre at George August University. Uni-versity. The job of Festival technicians techni-cians is long, tedious, and far from glamorous. It is a task that takes many long hours of labor and patience. |