By Catherine Reese Newton for The Salt Lake Tribune, published 5 September 2015, updated 8 September 2015
The Utah Shakespeare Festival bade farewell Saturday night to the Adams Memorial Shakespearean Theatre, its home for 44 years.
In a simple, elegant ceremony repeated on the final three nights of the summer season, festival actors stood on the Adams stage with electric candles and, one by one, spoke a line from one of the plays produced on that stage over the years before extinguishing the light — comedies Thursday night after a performance of “The Taming of the Shrew,” tragedies on Friday (“King Lear”) and history plays on Saturday (“Henry IV, Part Two”).
At the conclusion of Saturday’s ceremony, audience members turned on their commemorative keychain lights and followed festival founder Fred C. Adams and co-artistic director Brian Vaughn out of the theater and across 300 West to the site where the new Engelstad Shakespeare Theatre is under construction as part of the Beverley Taylor Sorenson Center for the Arts. Then Vaughn blew out his candle and a beam of light shone from the Engelstad in a symbolic torch-passing.
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