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Show rt n - f-" rr-s, j ' pi u I Tmr y , Yf i uyS PRODUCTION READY. Rip Van Winkle will be presented at SUSC April 27 - May 1. Performers include Jim Baumgart', left, Karine Beesley, center, and Boyd Christiansen, right. Rip Van Winkle slated for SUSC stage Catskill Mountains." The play is adapted from Ir-ving's Ir-ving's story by Joseph Jefferson. For more information about the show, contact the SUSC Theatre Box Office between 3 and 5 daily or at 7:30 p.m. the evenings of the performance. The colorful fable of Rip Van Winkle, Washington Irving's memorable character who fell asleep one day and woke 20 years later, a stranger to his family and community, will be presented at Southern Utah State College beginning April 27. The youth theatre production, set in the Catskill Mountains of New York, will be directed by Terral S. Lewis, SUSC instructor of drama. Matinee performances have been scheduled for the Iron County School District April 28- 30; evening performances will continue through May 1 with curtain time at 8:15 each night. Director Lewis notes that the Rip Van Winkle story, an age-old children's favorite, is being handled in the manner of an old time melodrama, complete with olios between scenes and acts. "The play is for adults as well as children," Lewis said, adding that the technical title of the play is "Rip Van Winkle-A great moral lesson on the evils of alcohol, or, a legend of the |