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Co-director Christopher Henley’s fascination with the Prince of Darkness

Christopher Henley, 2014

A human’s knowledge of impending death has always triggered a fascination with the concept of immortality or eternal youth. The legend of the vampire is potent in that it associates immortality with the loss of the essence of one’s humanity. Continue reading Co-director Christopher Henley’s fascination with the Prince of Darkness

Dracula co-directors are juggling performing, directing and their young family

Jay Hardee and Christopher Henley, co-directors of Dracula . A Love Story (Photo: Teresa Wood)

Theatre is a collaborative art form. Even though it is unusual, or, at least, not the norm, for a production to have two directors, it is, in some ways, a model that is representative of the qualities necessary for successful theatre — the balancing of distinct perspectives with a clear sense of authority (or, at least, from whom the final word will come).
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