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Show Bard Returns to SUSC for Eighteenth Season Continuing growth, new land-sccaping land-sccaping and an especially popular season of plays will greet friends of the Utah Shakespearean Festival this summer as the 18th annual season opens on July 12th and runs through August 18th on the Southern Utah State College campus. Plays selected for the season include in-clude ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, KING LEAR, and THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Two of the plays, THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR and KING LEAR, are proven favorites with Festival audiences, and ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, a comedy of Shakespeare's middle period, will be making a first appearance at the Festival. Two veteran directors will return, Sabin Epstein, well known to Cedar City audiences several years ago, will direct the MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, and Howard Jensen, who has been associated with the Festival in both acting . and directing capacities, will direct KING LEAR. Joining the Festival for the first time will be Jim O'Connor, director of . several outstanding productions in Utah, who will oversee ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL. In addition to directing overall operation of the Festival, Fred C. Adams, director and founder of the Festival at SUSC, will be in charge of staging and costuming for the twice-weekly afternoon af-ternoon programs of Elizabethan ' court music. Replacing the afternoon matinee for the 1979 season is a program of Elizabethan court music, featuring the pagentry, color and costumes of Queen Elizabeth's court, with music played on authentic Renaissance instruments'. These afternoon . programs will be presented Wednesdays and Saturdays at 2 p.m. during the production season. With the Adams Memorial Theatre building completely paid for, Festival planners are this season turning attention to landscaping the Festival grounds. The 1979 season will find new Tudor-style brickwork in place for walkways, new plantings and an entirely new dancing and pre-show pavilion completed and in use. As in other years, activities each evening during the Festival season will begin with a producer's orientation orien-tation to the play being presented, and dancing on the green, Punch and Judy, madrigal singing and Elizabethan concessions. 1'he Festival's policy of presenting - a learning experience in addition to the entertainment will be emphasized with seminars, backstage tours and college credit available. Box Office Manager, Fern Hunter, indicates that 1979 ticket sales are continuing strong, center section tickets are sold out for most of the weekend nights, although at this time good seating is available for every night ' during the season. For ticket information , call 586-3636, or write Box Office, Utah Shakespearean Festival, Cedar City 84720. THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR.Joann Patton as Mistress Page (left) and Michelle Farr as Mistress Ford (right) appear in the opening night production of THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR in this summer's Shakespearean Festival on the SUSC campus. |