OCR Text |
Show major productions to prove it Another outstanding year . . . another outstanding season in the theatre. And yet, we can not say another season has ended, what with the progressive spirit found in the theatre department. . . . It is a commonly achieved goal-although not at all common in itself-to find our University of Utah Theatre not only reveling in their present successful runs, but looking forward to the next play . . . the next season . . . the future successes. This year has been rich in these triumphs, and justly so. With the capable actors and oft-times forgotten "men-bchind-the-scene," Utah audiences and University students have been offered a memorable year of entertainment. Along with the great asset of being able to look ahead . . . planning . . . working . . . hoping . . . the theatre people have often the pleasure of looking back. The thrill and warmth of remembering those parts, those lines, the characters that they helped create . . the dramatic situations they lived in and loved. "Cyrano de Bergerac," a classical French play; the thought provoking "Mad Woman of Chaillot;" "Don Juan in Hell," a philosophical masterpiece; "Life with Mother" with all its charm of family life; the Shakespearian classic, Anthony and Cleopatra;" the entertaing "Silver Whistle." "The Trial," "Light Up the Sky," "The Fatal Weakness," and Hilda Crane;" "Rip Van Winkle," "Arthur and the Magic Sword," "Mr. Popper's Penquins," "Penrod" . . . No matter which theatre these plays appeared in, the main University Theatre, the Playbox Theatre-in-the-Round, or in the Chil-drens Theatre, the fact remains that good theatre has been offered in the 1950, '51 season. From Bernard Shaw's "Man and Superman," the dramatic interpretative reading, "Don Juan in Hell," was presented by The First Drama Quartet ... all oustanding actors. 263 |