Show Squeeze Play Proves Hoax Utah's university theater has been made the target of continued attacks by students whose reasoning leads them to believe that student talent is gradually being squeezed out of theater productions in favor of downtown This conclusion and the attacks primarily because the varsity and freshman plays have been eliminated from this year's university theater Just why these plays were eliminated is not to squeeze student actors out of their own college but because of the confusion and squabbles resulting from financial independence of freshman and varsity plays and other plays in which Theta Alpha Phi members could Dissection Among Groups To illustrate this each of these three varsity and Theta Alpha had make-up kits purchased by the organization and each stipulated that these kits could be used enly during plays in which the organization was exclusively taking This along with other financial and property was mainly responsible for the discontinuance of the freshman and varsity Just because the plays limited to these groups have been discontinued doesn't mean that either university students or freshman you don't consider them a part of the are not to be given the opportunity to appear in a regular university As a matter of fact the cast of Is included one two-upper-classmen two university graduates and one off-the-campus Freshmen are now eligible to appear in any as are upper Productions Improve In addition to unifying all theatrical productions and equipment under one this new arrangement will improve the productions Where formerly in freshman plays only freshmen could be used no matter what the age a character was supposed to the casting director can now select his cast because of their ability to play the part rather than by class Students have also registered gripes about why it is necessary to go off the campus for other The university-theater is justified in going off the campus to secure the best available thereby making the theatrical productions just that much because three-quarters of the theater audience comes from off-the-campus Finances for the university theater run in the thousands It had a gate of last The university appropriates to the theater to cover the cost of admittance for students on their activity under this through their activity are paying 11 cents per play per student hardly enough to on the lavish productions witnessed last year without outside financing that comes from your off-the campus students gain added technique when they are in a production with experienced More Plays Scheduled This year the university is presenting more plays than ever before five regular university three children's theater plays and five The growth intended for the university theater even now has not been C. Lowell head of the eventually plans to have plays with much longer and it is now under consideration to do a series next summer in the university |