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Show F Supplement to the Iron County Record, Cedar City, Utah estival an expression of Faith The Utah Shakespearean Festival was first produced on the campus of Southern Utah State College in the summer of 1962, as a result of the efforts of its founding producer, Professor Fred Adams. The Festival was then, as now, essentially an expression of faith-faith that the cultural inheritance of the Southern Utah area provided by the Pioneer settlers would sustain a revival of Shakespeare as it had done a centruy earlier. The response from area residents was s 1 - A temporary stage erected for the Festival performances of 1962 there has evolved the beautiful and functional Adams Memorial Theater, a permanent stage and seating structure derived from Elizabethan stagecraft. The Utah Shakespearean Theater has received national and international recognition for the excellence of its productions. The reviews have called attention at-tention to the contribution the Festival has made in cultivating and nurturing the humanistic traditions which Southern Utah State College so profoundly supports. gratifying, and in the fourteen years since its inception the Festival has grown impressively in the number of consecutive evenings of performance, in the number of spectators accommodated ac-commodated at the plays, in the wide diversity of geographical areas from which the audiences are attracted, and in the number of actors and production staff which provide the creative effort in support of the productions. Each year a talented company of actors and technicians are selected from colleges and universities across the country on the basis of auditions held in diverse locations. Because monetary rewards are inconsequent, in-consequent, the motivation which sustains the Festival is provided by devotion to and faith in the artistic merit of late six- rf "-iHUlliiiyiiii'iy hiiimiihwhh Fred Adams teenth, early seventeenth centruy cen-truy theater. Complementing the incomparable in-comparable Shakespearean drama are such art forms as dances, songs by the madrigal singers, and music provided by the Festival recorder orchestra. Pre-play activities effectively provide the gathering audience with pleasant diversion and an appropriate introduction to the evening's entertainment. ' Under the stately pines and calm, clear starry skies the ' audience is invited to respond to the noblest exponent of drama in the English language. From a rudimentary and |