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Show Seating complex scheduled for next season by the Shakespearean Festival said. , Another development will be the construction of an Old English En-glish street scene adjacent to the pre-play entertainment areas on the west wall of the SUSC auditorium building. Concession stands will be built for the serving of refreshments and display of souvenir gift Items. The Festival grounds will be paved with brick and landscaped land-scaped to resemble an Elizabethan Eliza-bethan garden, retaining some of the planted areas now In existence and adding others. Mr. Anderson is working with landscape architects on this development. de-velopment. He said that a further proposal pro-posal is to construct a stairway next to the auditorium which would provide an overview of the theatre and grounds for campus visitors. Mr. Anderson said that the Punch and Judy theatre will , probably remain portable so that It can be placed in the most advantageous location for its performers and viewers. 1 JU vggyl i Uiii'l i 11 i i v-v mr .,f., j t'fy,, rZTT A six-sided theatre complex that will accomodate more than 700 audience members with excellent ex-cellent seats is now in the realization real-ization stage as the next phase of the Utah Shakespearean Festival development. From the time planning began be-gan on the permanent home of the Festival mora than ten years ago, an idea uppermost in the minds of producers and designers has been to provide the most comfortable and enjoyable en-joyable viewing possible for Festival patrons. Since the completion of the Adams Memorial Theatre in 1972 as permanent home of the Festival, fund raising efforts have been directed toward seating, completion of the theatre the-atre complex,' a self-contained lighting system, and grounds development. By opening night of the thir-! teenth annual Festival season on July 11, 1974, all of the long awaited new seats will be permanently per-manently in place, and the hexagonal reproduction of the historians' concept of William Shakespeare's Globe Theatre will be completed on the Festival Festi-val grounds at Southern Utah State College. Major donations for the project have been received re-ceived from the Eggertsen Foundation and Dr. and Mrs. Obert C. Tanner. PLAN FOR FUTURE. Douglas Cook, Associate Producer and Fred C Adams, Ad-ams, director of the Utah Shakespearean Shakespear-ean Festival take time, following clos ing of 1973 season to talk about the upcoming seating addition and Phase II of the permanent facilities for the Festival. val, and Gary Mclntyre, managing man-aging director and production coordinator, have worked closely close-ly with Mr. Anderson on the building design. According to Mr. Anderson, the hexagonal shape of the theatre the-atre provides better sightlines from audience to stage in all areas of the structure. . "All seating will be jradu-ated, jradu-ated, and no seat will be further fur-ther than nine rows away from the stage," Mr. Anderson said. He added that the continental continent-al type seating will provide ample leg room and walk space between rows. Mr. Anderson said also that there will be no columns to contend with in the seating area. The shake-shingle partial roof covering the balconies and loges will be supported by steel columns running up the back of the construction at four-foot intervals. He explained that the 740 fixed seats will be installed on the permanent risers, with provision pro-vision for another 150 tempo rary seats to be placed on the promenade areas when necessary. neces-sary. The two promenades will circle the back of the lower seating area and the balcony level. The lower seating area and front of the stage will be open to the sky as in Shakespeare's day when plays were performed perform-ed primarily for a standee audience. The natural lighting from the roof opening provided the only illumination. For this reason, the plays were performed perform-ed during the daylight hours rather than at night. When completed, the building build-ing will resemble a "six-sided doughnut," Mr. Anderson said. The roof construction will be continuous all around, with a space in the balcony on either side of the stage for the orchestra. or-chestra. The roof design over the audience section will be the same as that on the theatre and will repeat the trusswork and exposed timbers of the original construction. Massive wrouht-iron gates will complete the design between be-tween stage and audience areas, providing easy exit for playgoers on either side of the building. The audience will enter the seating area from the rear by way of stairs leading lead-ing to the top. When funding can be obtained obtain-ed for the permanent sophisticated sophisti-cated lighting system needed for the theatre, a technicians' booth will be constructed on the center rear portion of the roof covering the seating area. The booth will be in the form of a cupola to complement the two cupolas on the roof of the stagehouse. Plans call for construction of a six-sided pavilion just southeast south-east of the theatre to be used by the Festival dancers during pre-play entertainment. Adjoining Ad-joining this structure will be an orchestra pavilion to accommodate accom-modate the pre-play musicians. Both pavilions will be elevated about two and one-half feet from the ground to provide for better viewing, Mr. Anderson Patrons attending this year's plays have had an opportunity to purchase seats for $25 each which will bear a nameplate honoring a person of the donor's choice. Anyone is eligible to participate in the plan as long as seats are available. Soon after the close of this season's Festival on August 11, plans and specifications for the seating area and other proposed development will be in the' hands of prospective bidders. Max Anderson, a member of the Utah State Building Board has prepared the architectural drawings for the work and has donated much of his own time to the project. The hexagonal design, a deviation de-viation from the traditional eight-sided Elizabethan theatre plan described in historical writings, is the idea of Douglas Cook, chairman of the Penn State Department of Theatre Arts and associate producer of the Utah Shakespearean Festival Festi-val for the past ten years. Mr. Cook, Fred C. Adams, founding producer of the Festi- |