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Show ii i ii ii mi iim ---i mm n n i l L i ii r - i i in n h n i i , I Shakespeare at his best goal of 11th Utah Shakespearean Festival in 1972 The rleventh season of the Utah Shakespearean Festival will be geared to present Shakespearean drama at its1 best and to offer fpecial educational edu-cational opportunities in Elizabethan Eliz-abethan drama. 1 Tlays will be seen this year on the newly completed permanent per-manent outdoor theatre and possibly phase one of permanent perm-anent seating will be completed. comple-ted. The Festival season has been extended to run from July 13 to August 12 for a total to-tal of 27 performances, six more than last season. Reasons for extending the season were given by Fred Adams, founding director. One reason was last year's 96.5 percent filled seating capacity and the great increase in Festival Fest-ival attendance over the past two years from 6,985 in 1969 to 10",7T9 in 1971. Professionalism Another reason for the extended ex-tended fctiMn was i keeping with the increasing professional profes-sional appearance of the acting act-ing company. Mr. Adams stated sta-ted that it was the feeling of company members that the season be extended "to justify the level of performance rached in the rehearsal period." per-iod." The Festival will have access ac-cess to a larger number of actors this season because of its membership in the URTA (University Resident Theatre VW4on), afftfitcd wjtfc the ATA (American Theatre Association). Auditions in East "Actorg chosen from URTA auditions in Chicago and Washington, D. C will make up a large part of the acting company," Mr. Adams .said. "By having access t0 over 80 actors from acting schools, colleges, and universities, we will be able to select a very talented company for the 1972 season." IV- Aim pointed out that all actors come to the Festival Festi-val on a non professional basis. bas-is. With the new building completed com-pleted plans tor permanent seating arc underway. Phase one of planned seating will be ready for the summer season sea-son only if the money can be raised within a short period of time. "If we can raise $25,000 in the very near future wc could have part of the seating done in time for the season; if w can't raise the money in time for seating to be finished by Commencement in early June, we won't chance starting it," Adams said. Continued phases Permanent seating will be phases two and three of a planned four phase building project. The outdoor Elizabethan Elizabe-than tiring house theatre made possible by a $30,000 gift from Mr. and Mrs. Obert C Tanner, Salt Lake City, is pbe one. One of the major goals of the Festival ha been to offer of-fer entertaining as well as educational exposure to Elizabethan Eliz-abethan drama. This year for the first time, a balanced program pro-gram of lectures, discussions, and playgoing will be offered as a college credit class in Shakespearean seminar. The seminar will be held from July 17 through August 4 centering around the three plays being presented this summer: "Comedy of Errors," "King Lear," and 'The Winter's Win-ter's Tale." Faculty Quests Faculty for the season will include guest directors, cost-umers cost-umers and technicians. Both literary and theatre emphasis will be taught using the actual act-ual Festival as background. Information about the seminar semi-nar can be obtained toy writing writ-ing Dr. R. A. Christmas, Director, Di-rector, Shakespearean Seminar, Semi-nar, SUSC, Cedar City, Utah, S17Zk k |
