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Show Parowan setting for BYU reader's theatre Parowan will be both the setting and the actual location loca-tion of a Brigham Young University Uni-versity Reader's Theatre production pro-duction scheduled for Saturday, Satur-day, Feb. 5, according to a release re-lease coming to us from the Y Press Service. "Noboby Dies", an original work by Dr. Albert O. Mitchell Mitch-ell of the BYU drama faculty, will be presented in the Parowan Paro-wan High School auditorium at 8 p. m. with residents of the entire area cordially invited in-vited to attend. The production is in the form of a series of vignettes about the people and events in a Mormon community called, cal-led, in the play, Center Creek. Center Creek was the original name given to Parowan when the first settlers reached the valley. The reminiscences of the sexton and the comments of some of the "inhabitants" of Center Creek Cemetery give insight into some of the problems, prob-lems, both poignant and hu- ., morous, of the Mormon community, com-munity, past and present. The theme of the play lies in the comment of the Sexton, "Nobody Dies as long as WE live and love and remember." Originally produced on the BYU campus last month, the play is also scheduled for future fu-ture productions in Provo. The 13-member cast is directed di-rected by Dr. Mitchell. The cemetery on Center Creek is probably the oldest one in the state south of Provo Pro-vo and its headstones carry the names of those who are buried there since the town was settled set-tled in 1851. You may go to the cemetery and visit with these people on your own if you can take time. That is what Mitchell was doing when he met a former townsman there in the mid-twenties, who told the writer of the play that he was "just visiting some of his old friends" All in all it should be a very fine evening of entertainment enter-tainment for us all. |