Entries on various theatre projects (mostly directing, mostly in Wellfleet, mostly paling in comparison to anything Meyerhold ever even put in a cereal bowl).
I’m the Pollyanna and it kills me. In 2004, I was in my third year of grad school, studying theatre directing. My thesis production was of an Irish play about two warring brothers and the priest who tries to reconcile them. In a certain way, it amounted to a very expensive diary entry. I watched [...]
Posted by Brendan on January 5, 2012
http://www.brendanhughes.com/the-conundrum-of-directing/
Reviews and such here.
Posted by Brendan on July 3, 2010
http://www.brendanhughes.com/closing-night-of-colorado/
Posted by Brendan on June 21, 2010
http://www.brendanhughes.com/cyrano-with-three-of-my-favorite-humans/
Gia Forakis was one of my three directing classmates at the Yale School of Drama. Possessed of a spoon bending imagination, her first production featured a cardboard dress and a waiter with black hair who’s head literally disappeared when he faced upstage. All of her productions made me feel like I was on mushrooms, culminating [...]
Posted by Brendan on May 11, 2010
http://www.brendanhughes.com/a-good-dress-rehearsal-is-useless-and-creepy/
I am currently in rehearsals for The Bilbao Effect by Oren Safdie, opening May 12 at the Center for Architecture. Oren writes hilarious, strange, intellectual plays about architecture. His father, Moshe Safdie, became famous when he designed Habitat 67 in Montreal, a spellbinding post-modern approach to apartment living made out of modular, interlocking concrete forms. [...]
Posted by Brendan on April 27, 2010
http://www.brendanhughes.com/directing-in-new-york-after-a-period-of-five-years/
The show I’m directing on the Harbor Stage of the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater opened on Wednesday and here are some pictures:
Posted by Brendan on June 14, 2009
http://www.brendanhughes.com/pictures-from-the-bald-soprano-at-w-h-a-t/
