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HHG Theatre Co-Artistic Director Sean Devine talks about the ongoing creation process for his newest work Daisy. Bill Bernbach, known in the advertising world as the father of “the creative revolution” is so revered in his industry that a book of Bernabch quotes is required reading. One of his better known quotes goes: “The truth isn’t the truth until people believe you, and they can’t believe you if they don’t know what you’re saying, and they can’t know what you’re saying […]

HHG Theatre Co-Artistic Director Sean Devine talks about the ongoing creation process for his newest work Daisy. I’ve always had trouble coming up with character names. I envy playwrights who can come up with the most interesting and ingenious names right off the cuff. I’m not one of them. It takes me about 15 attempts to come up with a name that doesn’t sound phony. Even as a young man, if and when the situation presented itself where I could […]

Over the course of the creation and development of This Stays in the Room, we experiemented with a number of media for how we wanted to depict the real and fragmented selves that will be exposed on stage. Some high-tech media, some low-tech. But one medium that resonated strongly was the simplest of all: chalk. The ubiquitous image of the ‘chalk outline’, the personification of the remnants of a once-living person, became a symbolic vehicle for transferring these ‘characters’ that […]