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Show Directors prepare 1970 Festival BYU and television commercials. commerc-ials. He played Frank Butler in "Annie Get Your Gun" for a South American State Department De-partment tour, and was a member of the Ross Valley Players in Marin County, Calif. Third Year for Festival Mr. Strickland is returning I to the Festival for his third I year to direct "The Merry Wives of Windsor." He served as stage manager during the 1969 season. He was entertainment entertain-ment director for the 2nd Infantry In-fantry Division of the 8th U.S. Army and received the best director and best supporting actor award fon his production produc-tion of "The Zoo Story" in the 8th U.S. Army Play Tour- Directors, actors, and technicians tech-nicians are meeting around the clock rehearsal schedules in preparation for the July 16 opening of the ninth annual Utah Shakespearean Festival at Southern Utah State College. Col-lege. Plays to be performed on an alternating schedule through August 8 include "King Richard III," "Twelfth Night" and "The Merry Wives of Windsor." Directing the three plays this year are Fred C. Adams, ' ' producing director and found. ; er of the Festival, John M. i Elzey, associate director and business manager of the Weber We-ber State College Theatre, and Edward C. Strickland, gradu-I gradu-I ate student at Penn State Un- iversity and three year veteran j of the Festival. I Mr. Adams will direct "King Richard III," first of the Shakespearean histories to be i produced at the Festival. The ' play will open the season at the( annual Governor's Gala to be attended by Governor , and Mrs. Calvin L. Rampton. Mr. Adams has directed more than a dozen of Shake- speare's plays since he founded found-ed the Festival in 1962. In the first season he directed all three plays, "Hamlet," "Taming "Tam-ing of the Shrew" and "Merchant "Mer-chant of Venice." During the regular season he is director of the SUSC Drama Department. Depart-ment. His 1970 production of "Fiddler on the Roof" was the first authorized non-professional performance of the popular pop-ular Broadway musical. Others Oth-ers of the more than 75 plays he has produced or directed include "Mcdca," "Barefoot in the Park," "Royal Hunt of the Sun," "Camelot," "Antigone,' and "The Fantasticks." He re. ceived BA and MA degrees from Brigham Young Univer- II, nSNv nament. He received a BA degree de-gree from Weslyan University in Middletown, Conn, and in the past year at Penn State has directed "The Private Ear," "Neither," "The Dock Brief" and "My Fair Lady." He also acted in Penn State productions of "The Fantasticks," Fanta-sticks," "Wonderful Town," "No Exit" and " As You Like It." Mr. Strickland's father is F. Cowles Strickland, professor profes-sor of acting and directing at American University and author of The Technique of Acting used in some 180 colleges col-leges and universities. His parents met in a Gilbert anc" Sullivan company where his father was director and his mother was one of the leading lead-ing singers. FRED ADAMS p'lir'Winifr'lSf i'niiT!in'liiJ;'iil ';,;v,iii'mi! wailllMin tiv -'t: , si.'.iij. si nijii' "i&r "' , l""1, 11 " """Z'Z- - j h is sny. U of U graduate Mr. Elzey, director of the Festival production of "Twelfth Night," received BFA and MFA degrees from me University of Utah. Ho is currently cur-rently completing work toward a doctoratc from the University Univer-sity of Minnesota, where he was named outstanding director di-rector for his production of "You Can't Take It With You." Previous Shakespearean productions pro-ductions he has directed are "The Winter's Tale," "Romeo and Juliet" and "MacBeth." I Mr. Elzey has also directed "The Seagull," "The Lesson" and "The New Tenant.' He has played nearly 73 roles from Shakespeare to musical comedy, come-dy, uniuduu t3 work ferl 8 i tDWAEO & STEICELAMO li JOHN li. ELZEY |