Light­ing Designer

“… And Mick Hughes light­ing is mas­terly evok­ing the clear, frozen sun­ni­ness that sat­u­rates the inte­ri­ors of Ver­meer paintings.“Ben Brant­ley. THE NEW YORK TIMES. July 28, 2001.

Mick Hughes started his career in 1961 as elec­tri­cian for the Mar­gate Stage Com­pany. The first West End pro­duc­tion he lit was The Fight­ing Cock in 1966. which trans­ferred from Chich­ester where he has lit 10 sea­sons. He directed 40 plays for Worces­ter Rep from 1967 to 1972 and lit all the plays at The Chich­ester Fes­ti­val The­atre from 1966 to 1969 and from 1974 to 1979. From 1978 to 1982 he was Light­ing Con­sul­tant for The Hong Kong Arts Fes­ti­val. Con­sul­tant on The New Hamp­stead The­atre Club.

Recent Work

The Children’s Hour (Royal Exchange The­atre). The Glass Menagerie, Uncle Vanya (The Gate The­atre, Dublin). The Cav­al­caders, A Month In The Coun­try (Abbey The­atre, Dublin).

For Alan Ayckbourn

At The Stephen Joseph The­atre, Scar­bor­ough he has lit The Revengers, Come­dies, Body Lan­guage, Wildest Dreams, Oth­ello, Tak­ing Steps, One Over The Eight, Time Of My Life, Com­mu­ni­cat­ing Doors (also Chicago Fes­ti­val) By Jeeves, A Word From Our Spon­sor, It Could Be Any One Of Us, The Cham­pion Of Pariban­dou, Absent Friends, A Doll’s House, The Boy Who Fell Into A Brook, Body Lan­guage, Vir­tual Real­ity, When­ever, House And Gar­den, Game Plan, Flat Spin and Role Play and sub­se­quent tour, Sugar Dad­dies and tour, Drown­ing On Dry Land and tour, Pub­lic Fears In Pub­lic Places, The Cham­pion Of Paribandou,If I Where You and Woman In Mind recently trans­ferred to The Vaude­ville Theatre.

In The USA

Won­der­ful Ten­nessee (Ply­mouth The­atre), Molly Sweeney (Round­about The­atre) both in New York.
By Jeeves at Good­speed Opera House, Con­necti­cut ‚The Ter­race at the Kennedy Cen­tre, Wash­ing­ton D.C., The Pub­lic The­atre Pitts­burg and The Helen Hayes The­atre New York
The Pin­ter Fes­ti­val at the Lin­coln Cen­tre. (described as The Ver­meer of Light­ing by The New York Times !) Pri­vate Fears In Pub­lic Places, Brits Off Broad­way Sea­son.
He is a mem­ber of United Scenic Artists Local 829.

In Dublin

After Play,See You Next Tuesday,The Pin­ter Sea­son, Molly Sweeney, Dublin Carol, Port Author­ity, Three New Plays, The Home­com­ing and See You Next Tues­day at The Gate; Lzzie Finn, Trans­la­tions, Love In The Title, Give Me Your Answer Do, A Month InThe Coun­try and Cav­al­caders at The Abbey. Juno At The Pay­cock at The Gai­ety Theatre.

For The Royal National Theatre

Of Great Britain he has lit Mrs Warren’s Pro­fes­sion, Death Of A Sales­man, The Care­taker, The Tro­jan War Will Not Take Place, A Lit­tle Hotel On The Side, A Cho­rus Of Dis­ap­proval, Tons Of Money, A View From The Bridge, A Small Fam­ily Busi­ness, ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore, Fuente Ove­juna, The March On Rus­sia, Man Beast And Virtue, Invis­i­ble Friends, Angels In Amer­ica, The Rise And Fall Of Lit­tle Voice, Square Rounds, Stages, Mr A’s Amaz­ing Maze, Plays, Sweeney Todd,The Devil’s Desci­ple, Dealer’s Choice.
The simul­ta­ne­ous pro­duc­tions of House And Gar­den, No Man’s Land and On The Shore Of The Wide World.

For The Royal Shake­speare Company

Pas­sion Play, The Dan­ton Affair and Wildest Dreams.
His work in opera includes the Wex­ford Fes­ti­val from 1982 to1985. Don Pasquale and Mahagonny for ENO at The Lon­don Coliseum.

In 1986 Mick won the Har­vey Award in Dublin for Frank McGuin­ness’ Innocence.

Recently at Chich­ester Minerva

The Children’s Hour (Royal Exchange The­atre). The Hot­house, Sim­ply Dis­con­nected, The Handy Man, Whom Do I Have The Hon­our Of Address­ing? and After Octo­ber. In the main house Rac­ing Demon and Kather­ine Howard.

West End Work Includes

Steam­ing, Crys­tal Clear, Mes­siah, Other Places, Break­ing The Code, The Best Of Friends, You Never Can Tell, Dry Rot, Richard II and Richard III, Steel Mag­no­lias, The Cherry Orchard, Never The Sin­ner, Book­ends, Man Of The Moment, Burn This, Same Old Moon, Cops, The Revengers Come­dies, Time Of My Life, The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie, Cell Mates, Com­mu­ni­cat­ing Doors, Dealer’s Choice, Don’t Dress For Din­ner, Tak­ing Sides, By Jeeves, Tom And Clem, A Let­ter Of Res­ig­na­tion, The Things We Do For Love, The After Play, Damsels In Dis­tress, See U Next Tues­day, Man And Boy, Los­ing Louis, The Creeper and Woman In Mind.

FOR HAROLD PINTER Circe And Bravo, Sweet Bird Of Youth, Veteran’s Day, Vanilla, The Care­taker, The Hot House, Twelve Angry Men, Life Sup­port, The Home­com­ing and Old Masters,

Off West End

Hamp­stead The­atre, Give me Your Answer Do, Now You Know, Morn­ing And Evening, Peggy For You and Dis­pos­ing Of The Body. The Royal Court The­atre Ashes To Ashes, Shal­low End and The Night Heron, Tri­cy­cle The­atre Sive, Four Knights In Knares­bor­ough, Cav­al­caders and Dwarves. Don­mar Ware­house Help­less and Hotel In Amsterdam.The Almeida The­atre Cel­e­bra­tion and The Room.

In Prepa­ra­tion

All My Sons at the Gate The­atre Dublin
and Observe the Sons of Ulster March­ing Towards the Somme at Hamp­stead Theatre.

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