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Show Babcock's Playboy' Chosen To Compete in Festivention The Babcock Theatre's December production of playboy of the western world has been chosen by the Rocky Mountain Theatre Association and the American Ameri-can College Theatre Festival judges to compete at the 1981 Festivention. The competition will be held at Loretto Heights College in Denver, Colorado January 21-24. "The associations have very strict standards they follow in judging the plays," said Marilyn Holt, Associate ChairmanXof the Theatre Department aVhe University of Utah and Sector for PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WEST-ERN WORLD. "Ifit'srtatup to their standards, they won't chose a winner. So. we're very proud to be going to Denver," she continued. PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD, a classic clas-sic Irish drama written by John Millington Synge, was one of four college plays chosen from a five-state region (including Idaho, Col-' Col-' orado, Wyoming, Montana and Utah) to compete at the Festivention. The winner at Denver will travel to Washington. Wash-ington. D.C. and perform for the National American College Col-lege Theatre Festival at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts this spring. The University of Utah will also be sending several individual contestants. Herb Caldwell and Callie Floor-have Floor-have been nominated for their Sets and Costumes for PLAYBOY in the Design Area. Seven Acting students: stu-dents: David L. Anderson, Richard Baxter, Lee Biolos, Tom Costello, Charles La-Fon, La-Fon, Jonathan Gochberg and Patsy Stephen, will participate partici-pate in the Irene Ryan Acting Award competition. John Osburn will be a participant in the Critics competition. |