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The Utah Shakespearean Festival
Comedy, tragedy and musicals highlight this summer's shows
Also, from mid-August through Sept. 3, the Plays in Progress series will let USF audiences see staged readings of new works that are in development.
Following are reviews of this summer's six productions the three Randall shows and the three Adams productions (one of which has additional matinees in the nearby Auditorium).
Three Shakespearean classics "The Winter's Tale," "The Taming of the Shrew" and "Henry IV, Part 1" which range from light romantic comedy to brooding tragedy, are now onstage in the outdoor Adams Memorial Theatre.
THE WINTER'S TALE (running time: three hours, with one intermission).
Half tragedy, half "fairy tale"-oriented comedy, "The Winter's Tale" touches on such spiritual themes as faith and forgiveness.
The second half picks up 16 years later in Bohemia, where both Polixenes and Camillo have fled, and where the infant child was left and abandoned. But those 16 years have made a lot of difference. The child named Perdita by the Old Shepherd and his son Willem, who discovered her is now madly in love with handsome young Prince Florizel (Polixenes' son), who is unaware of her royal lineage.
The fast-paced comedy of the second half keeps the entire production from feeling three hours long. Director Fontaine Syer keeps things moving smoothly and has injected one unusual aspect into the staging.
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