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That Was A Flash Of Genius

June 2, 2016 Leave a Comment

  Constant readers of this blog will recall that about a month ago, I posted about the fact that we were getting to work on incorporating the frame. I expressed some trepidation about the fact that we were adding something new to Wilde’s work of art, and my occasional wish that I had not decided […]

Filed Under: Ideal Husband, Other, Shows

Venus Emerges

May 29, 2016 Leave a Comment

Venus Emerges

We are in the middle of another productive and enjoyable set build weekend! I have to go back and paint in about half an hour, but here are some pictures of what we did yesterday: This is the fireplace panel. Meara, our color chemist, mixed the slate blue color for the upper wall, which I […]

Filed Under: Ideal Husband, Shows

The Triumph of Something

May 23, 2016 Leave a Comment

The Triumph of Something

  We have reached the magical point in the show life cycle when the number of things about the process that I can actually control and/or do myself begins to shrink. It starts, at this point, to be more about letting other people do their thing with props or lights or sound or the set. […]

Filed Under: Ideal Husband, Other, Shows

The Picture And The Frame

May 5, 2016 Leave a Comment

The Picture And The Frame

I woke up at 4 a.m. this morning thinking about Oscar Wilde’s tomb. Must be the first week of May. This is the point in the rehearsal process at which we begin trying to incorporate the frame. The frame is something I came up with; it’s not in the script and it is therefore not […]

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Welcome to the An Ideal Husband Blog!

April 20, 2016 Leave a Comment

Welcome to the An Ideal Husband Blog!

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the director’s blog for The Hyde Park Community Players’ production of Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband. The sad irony of directors’ blogs, of course, is that we all start them with the best of intentions…and then, as showtime approaches, they wither away and die. We get too busy actually making […]

Filed Under: Ideal Husband, Other, Shows

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