Hugo Mazza

Hugo Mazza Meisel (born June 14, 1925 in Montevideo , † September 2, 2010 ) was a Uruguayan theater director and set designer.

Hugo Mazza completed a five-year course at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes . Later he was a lecturer for many years at the Escuela Municipal de Arte Dramático (EMDA), the Escuela Pedro Figari and the Universidad del Trabajo del Uruguay (UTU). Mazza was the production manager of Comedia Nacional . He also founded the Teatro Circular and worked at the Teatro de la Ciudadela , La Barraca and La Compañia de los Cinco . During the period from 1953 to 1967, in which he worked as a director, various plays by Gorki, Terence Rattigan , Arturo Ferrer , Juan Carlos Legido and Elsa Shelley were created under his aegis . In his work as a set designer, which he began in 1947, he worked in particular at the Montevidean theaters and also created sets for operas, ballet and prose theater, including Shakespeare's Hamlet and Schiller's Maria Stuart . He was also responsible for the set design in the films "Gurí" and "El lugar del humo". He has received several awards from the Asociación de Críticos Teatrales and the Casa del Teatro . Hugo Mazza was the younger brother of Eduardo Malet .

literature

• Nuevo Diccionario de la Cultura Uruguaya by Miguel Ángel Campodónico , Librería Linardi y Risso, 2003, p. 209

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hugo Mazza. (Spanish) in La República, September 13, 2010, accessed March 7, 2014
2. ↑ AVISOS FUNEBRES (Spanish) in La República of September 4, 2010, accessed on March 7, 2014
3. ↑ Falleció Eduardo Malet, fundador del Teatro Circular e introductor del teatro isabelino en el Uruguay (Spanish) in La República of 25 May 2007, accessed on March 7, 2014