Mister Heracles

Archive Listings for Mister Heracles

T1698125478 (WYP01) World PremiereDirector Natasha Betteridge. Director Simon Godwin. Design Laura Hopkins. Lighting Laura Hopkins. Music Nick Powell. Sound Lucy Wilkins. Sound Mic Poole (sound consultant). Performer Adrian Bower (Mister Heracles). Performer Patrick Toomey (Theseus). Performer Clare McCarron (Megara). Performer Matthew Scurfield (Smphitryon). Performer Rupert Holliday Evans (Lycus). Performer Nick Bagnall (Madness). Performer Georgina Roberts (Iris). Performer Marie Collett. Performer George Innes. Performer Jim Findley.
16 Feb 01 to 17 Mar 01	West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds :: V977 listing details L01701471021
T0721861722 (COTTES01) Greek playreading celebrating a contemporary approach to the genre.
1 Mar 01	Cottesloe (National Theatre), West End :: V375 listing details L0446499239

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Play :: A living legend returns home after years away. He finds his family under threat of execution and his country in despair. It's not quite the welcome home he'd expected. The country has been waiting for the return of a conquering hero, but Heracles is just a man - a master of violence, but also a slave to it. Shocking and strange, tearing from triumph to horror, Mister Heracles was commissioned by the Playhouse from Yorkshire-born poet, Simon Armitage.

Author

Simon Armitage