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Show :i Cll J"ifu ' mJ MADRIGALS lend music to pre-play activities, which has become an important part of the 13 year tradition of the Utah Shakespearean Festival. "Stuff dreams are made of" Since 1962 when Shakespearean Shakes-pearean Drama was first recreated amid the masterworks of nature in Southern Utah, the Utah Shakespearean Festival has evolved and grown to a point hours making costumes, sets, or props to create the appropriate environment, or the actor who, for the sake of experience and learning and also an inner dictated dic-tated passion for the theatre, spends an exhausting summer with little compensation other than the satisfaction derived from accomplishment. It's the patron who, year after year, contributes toward the building of a dream.. It's the small group of insistant, hopelessly optimistic persons who dream the dreams and share them and eventually build them for the lovers of art, the students, the fellow dreamers and themselves. It's the people. The Utah Shakespearean Festival is people, and after twelve years ot dreaming and building, the Festival has begun a new era of growth and refinement. One which is ever in need of people, for therein lies the "stuff dreams are made of." that the struggles and fears of the beginning years in retrospect are pleasant and often humorous memories. Their yield has produced challenges and possibilities far beyond the dreams upon which the Festival was founded. Now at a point where value and worth seem established but the burden of potential weighs heavy, many persons involved with the Utah Shakespearean Festival have begun to understand un-derstand that what makes success suc-cess persist despite seemingly overwhelming odds to the contrary is people. It's people, all the way from William Shakespeare himself, who set to words the passions and emotions of life as did no other man, to the undergraduate seamstress or technician who spends endless |