We recently asked Randy Hughson to take our very own Proust questionnaire, compiled from various versions of the Victorian parlour game popularized by Marcel Proust.

Randy is a resident of Stratford, where he lives with his wife, actress Melissa Good, and daughter Georgina. He has been a member of Stratford Festival acting company for six seasons.  Randy appears this season as Pompey is Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, and Lucky in Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot.

 

What is your current state of mind?  

Content, happy.

 

What is your idea of complete happiness?

My daughter and wife and I sitting on the dock at our cottage, watching the moon rise on a warm summer's evening, and not a single mosquito for miles.

 

What would be your greatest misfortune?

To lose my memory or to lose my family.

 

What are the qualities you most admire in a woman?

Humour, self confidence, loyalty, and patience.

 

What are the qualities you most admire in a man?

Patience, loyalty, honesty, and the courage to say no.

 

Who are your favourite heroes of fiction?

Bathsheba Everdene and Gabriel Oak from Thomas Hardy's  Far from the Madding Crowd.

 

What natural talent would you like to be gifted with?

Leadership.

 

If not yourself, who would you be?

Dead. If not, Paul Newman in his prime.

 

Where and when have you been the happiest?

In a canoe, a harvest moon on the rise, a fishing line in the lake, a beer at my feet, and a cry of a loon. This does not exclude the birth of my daughter and my marriage to my beautiful wife.

 

How would you like to die?

In my sleep, dreaming of a canoe, a harvest moon, and a fishing line with a big bass on the end. This does not exclude dreaming of the birth of my daughter and my marriage to my beautiful wife.