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Show . - Shakespearean Festival Opens in Cedar City A trumpet fanfare summons visitors to their seats - none more than nine rows away from the stage where this season Love's Labour's Lost, Julius Caesar and The Tempest will be produced in nightly rotation except Sunday. Visitors attending at-tending any three nights may see all three plays, which are chosen for each season on the basis of audience appeal, variety of subject matter, and timeliness. This summer, for . example. The Tempest, based on an actual shipwreck suffered 1 by an English expedition attempting at-tempting to supply the Jamestown colony, was chosen to represent Shakespeare's tribute to the new world. The play's directors as well as actors are chosen by applications ap-plications received from all over the country. This season Sanf ord Robbins of Los Angeles City College will direct Love's Labour's Lost; Robert Leonard, a major director with the Alley , Theatre in Houston. Texas, will (Cont.onPage16) When the Cedar City Utah i hakespearean Festival opens fs 15th annual season July 15, t will probably be "pinch-me, 'm dreaming" for the f festival's old timers, for a 15-' 15-' ear dream will be realized. ; rhe Adams Memorial Theatre j wilding, barely roofed over in ! ime for opening, will finally be I xmiplete. With the permanent i oof (a gift of Obert and Grace ! dams Tanner) in place, guests will be welcomed to a total building. . . authentically styled with wrought iron gates, a tall cupola and a three-level Tudor thrust stage. Permanent armchair arm-chair seating and an expanded lighting system (although not the permanent one yet) will look mighty different to those Festival veterens who remember 1962, when Founding Director Fred Adams suggested to Gary Mclntyre, "Let's move this indoor set outside under the pines and try a summer performance." Guests this Bicentennial season are invited to participate par-ticipate in an afternoon backstage. tour, which will feature a color film of the Festival produced last season under a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. In the evening, visitors will enter a display hall themed.to "Our Bonds with the Mother Country." Coun-try." Preparations .are being , made to display replicas of the Crown Jewels of England, and the display hall will emphasize-perhaps emphasize-perhaps our strongest cultural bond with England, William Shakespeare. From 7:30 p.m. until the performance beings, guests may wander outdoors to enjoy . tall pines and clean mountain air while being entertained by Elizabethan dnacing, singing and puppet shows. Elizabeth Hamilton, who came to the Festival in 1978 from Long Beat State University, has brought new innovations, variations and interest to her directing of the pre-show activities. Refreshments Refresh-ments are produced under the supervision of Mary Anker, another Festival veteran. "Horehound, oranges and tarts," the young vendors call in their London street songs, and profits from the sales are turned into acting scholarships. Three separate singing groups under the coordination of Barbara G. Adams provide Renassance music, Madrigal I singing and accompaniment for the green dances. mull "LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST'' - Ruth Priwer as Moth and Peter Dvorsky as Armado. Directed by Sanf ord Robbins and costumes designed by Anne Watson. Shakespearean Festival Productions Open July 15th for Summer Run some of it spent sweltering in heavy Elizabethan costumes under the hot afternoon sua In addition to being a quality product, the Festival has just a little help along the way from the Southern Utah Scenery. Centered within a day's drive from Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park, Grand Canyon National Park, Cedar Breaks National Monument, (Cont. From Page 15) join the Festival to direct The Tempest; and Howard Jensen, a Southern Utah State College alumnus and presently in charge of the acting program at Indiana University, Bloomington, will return to the Festival to direct Julius Caesar. (This season will mark a departure from tradition: for the first time since the Festival began, Fred Adams will not be . directing a play. He has directed 21 Festival productions since 1962.) As early as March these directors were establishing contacts with their costumers, one for each play, and deciding the mood, the feel and the approach ap-proach to be put into the elaborate apparel. A rule governing costumes used at the Utah Shakespearean Festival stresses traditionalism; no costume may be constructed in a style with which Shakespeare would lot have been familiar. In ottur words, Hamlet will , 1 probably never be seen on roller skates at this Festival. Since costumes are cut and fitted specifically for the individual who will wear them, they are never re-used. Instead they go into storage for use in the Winter SUSC Drama Department Depart-ment costume tour, or they are taken apart and the materials re-sewn into into other Festival costumes. In it's 15th season the Utah Shakespearean Festival is a quality product, well-known throughout the mountain west, and the supported by such diverse donors as the S.B. Eggersten Foundation and the Cedar City Ladies Drama Club. Avon Products Company has given financial support, and Hi-Land Hi-Land Dairies will again this season feature the Festival on their milk cartons. The people of Cedar City give support in the form of membership in the Festival Guild, while volunteer musicians, hostesses and vendors all contribute time . . . Glen Canyon and Lake Powell, 'Shakespeare in the sticks" has a boost from the beginning "People come to visit the Parks," Mr. Adams explains, "but after all, what can you do in a National Park after sundown? sun-down? A summer drama festival was logical. Years ago we would say the Festival is near the National Parks. Now it's the opposite. The National Parks, for many people, are near the Festival. It's a double bill: gological theatre by day; Shakespearean Theatre by night That's a good combination." com-bination." And despite the beautiful building and fantastic plans for the future of the Festival, Mr. Adams grows a little reminiscent' "You "know the first year we put on Hamlet, three little boys from Kanarraville rode their bikes up to Cedar City and watched the rehearsal every night After the play opened I never saw them again, and I regretted that they had never seen a complete performance. Years later I told this story to a Richfield Ladies ; Club, and one of the ladies came up after to tell me the sequel. One of the boys was her nephew, she said, the boys had indeed seen the complete play. They had hidden in the trees after opening night, watching many of the performances, and to this day the boys can recite much of the play of Hamlet from memory. After all the rest is said, "concludes the man who probably knows the most about it, "this is what the Utah Shakespearean Festival is really about. Most Important is touching young lives." 1976 Summer Season Is from July IS to August 14. with nightly rotation except Sunday. For ticket Information write: Box Office, Utah Shakesperean Festival Cedar City, Utah 84720 or Call 581-3(36. NEW FESTIVAL BUILDING- Just completed, the new structure seats 927. Original design was by Douglas M. Cook, Associate Producer, who teaches at Penn. Stat |