Hughie, presented with Footfalls and Rockaby

Hughie is set in a cheap hotel lobby in New York circa 1928. Hughie, the hotel’s night clerk has passed away, and Eric Smith, a resident of the hotel, has just returned from a three-day binge following Hughie’s funeral. Smith had dazzled Hughie with his pipe dreams and boasts of exaggerated victories and he wants the new clerk to play the same role as Hughie did. In the course of fifty minutes, the audience witnesses a mutual dependency develop as Smith’s dreams help both men deal with their shabby reality. 

In Footfalls, a middle-aged woman cares for her aged mother, whom the audience never sees. In the course of the play, the daughter paces the stage confronting her unseen mother and herself.

In Rockaby, an old woman sits on a bare stage rocking back and forth, making contact with only the sound of her prerecorded voice, struggling for a way to go on. 

Footfalls and Rockaby

by Samuel Becket

Directed by John Grant-Phillips

Set design by Don Soulé

Costume design by Lynn Jeffrey

Lighting design by Thom Palm

Sound design by Randolph C. Head

Footfalls Cast:
May                Karen MacDonald
Voice              Marianne Owen

Rockaby Cast:
Old Woman    Marianne Owen