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Most visitors to Yosemite National Park use maps, follow trails and heed the advice of rangers. But some (mostly men) do inadvisable things that put their lives, and those of their would-be rescuers, in jeopardy. The gleefully macabre "Death in Yosemite" tells about those inane, reckless and ultimately tragic figures who succumb to the lures of Spirit of Yosemite, a beguiling maiden who ultimately puts on a Jason mask as she demands a blood sacrifice. Edwin Strout plays a park ranger/narrator and Dawn Kosnowski is the Spirit. The clever, interactive production, created by Tim Wick and John Newstrom, is structurally wanting but often is laugh-out-loud funny. (10 p.m. Sat., 5:30 p.m. Sun., 7 p.m. Wed., 1 p.m. Sun. Aug. 13, Theatre in the Round, 245 Cedar Av. S., Mpls.)

ROHAN PRESTON