Utah Shakespearean Festival

Find Your Passion at the Utah Shakespearean Festival’s 2008 Fall Season

 

Who: The Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespearean Festival

What: The 2008 season – Julius Caesar, Gaslight, and Moonlight and Magnolias

When: September 19-October 25, performances at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday

Where: 300 West Center Street in Cedar City, Utah

Tickets: $24–$46

 

CEDAR CITY, UT — Find your passion this fall at the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespearean Festival. The Festival’s fall season will offer a unique blend of performances sure to ignite the passions of every playgoer.

 

The fall season runs from September 19 through October 25, 2008 with three plays in the Randall Theatre: Shakespeare’s political tragedy Julius Caesar, the famous thriller Gaslight, and a comedy based around the writing of the screenplay for Gone with the Wind, Moonlight and Magnolias. You can get your tickets by calling 1-800-PLAYTIX or by going online to bard.org.

 

About The Plays

The noble Brutus finds himself on the horns of a dilemma, in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Is he being swayed by the self-serving plots of political opportunists or does Caesar, the man who has loved him as a son, really intend to see himself crowned an emperor? The heavens are troubled, nightmares portent war, and an air of impending doom pervades the Roman state.

 

Gaslight is a classic murder mystery, a keep-you-on-the-edge-of-your-seat melodrama. While Jack is out on the town each evening, his wife, Bella, stays home alone. Believing she’s losing her mind, she can’t explain the disappearance of familiar objects, the mysterious footsteps overhead, or the ghostly flickering of living room gaslights whenever her husband is gone. This suspenseful and taut thriller will surprise you and have you holding your breath at every creaking floor and every flickering lamp.

 

Moonlight and Magnolias is a hilarious new farce wherein movie mogul David O. Selznick has hired writer Ben Hecht and director Victor Fleming to write the screenplay for “Gone with the Wind.” Locked in Selznick’s office, living on peanuts and bananas, the men turn their world upside down as they eventually give birth to one of the most beloved films of all time. Now if Hecht had only read the novel.

 

Media Contact: Amanda Caraway, 435-586-1969, 435-592-3616 (cell)

 

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Valid for 2 tickets for any Tues-Thur performance in the 2008 fall season.