DR CHRIS HAY

DIRECTING

Since 2006, my research practice has been aided and abetted by my practical work as a theatre director. All of the photographs featured on this website are production stills from these shows. More recently, I directed the 2017 Theatre Studies Major Production at the University of New England (UNE): Spring Awakening, by Frank Wedekind in a new translation that I prepared for this production. The cover page of this website features production stills from this work. In 2020, I directed students in the “Live Theatre Production” course at UQ in a production of The Arsonists by Max Frisch. This production — part of a double-bill titled “The Fire Caught Fire” — was rehearsed on-line, performed live, and live-streamed via YouTube, in the first performance of its kind at the University.

In recent years, I have supported the work of colleagues as a dramaturg. Some of this work has included:

• Her Empty Chair, devised work
  October 2016, National Theatre of Parramatta and Riverside Theatres (dir. Kristine Landon-Smith).

• Don Juan Comes Back From the War, by Ödön von Horváth (trans. Christopher Hampton)
  May 2016, East 15 Acting School and Tristan Bates Theatre, London (dir. Kristine Landon-Smith).

Some highlights of my directing work include: 

• August: Osage County, by Tracy Letts
  March 2013, Cellar Theatre (University of Sydney).

• A Tree Ascending, devised work of headphone verbatim
  October 2012, for the Verge Arts Festival (University of Sydney).

• Night Letters, by writer Susan Rogers and director Chris Drummond
  February 2011, Seymour Theatre Centre for the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Arts Festival.

• Standing on Ceremony: the Gay Marriage Plays, by Tectonic Theatre Project [Worldwide Premiere]
  November 2011, Cellar Theatre (University of Sydney).

• Hippolytos Raised, by Anne Carson and the Company after Euripides
  September 2010, Festival of Australian Student Theatre and October 2010, Seymour Theatre Centre.

• King Lear, by William Shakespeare
  February/March 2010, Seymour Theatre Centre and Holden Street Theatres (Adelaide Fringe).

• Laramie: Ten Years Later – An Epilogue, by Tectonic Theatre Project [Worldwide Premiere]
  October 2009, Seymour Theatre Centre.

• Andorra, by Max Frisch (trans. Michael Bullock)
  October 2008, Cellar Theatre (University of Sydney).

• The Laramie Project, by Moises Kaufman and the Members of Tectonic Theatre Project
  April 2008, Seymour Theatre Centre and November 2008, King Street Theatre.