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.T1698125478World 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 | Leeds Playhouse (formerly West Yorkshire Playhouse), Leeds :: V977 listing details L01701471021 |
T0721861722Greek playreading celebrating a contemporary approach to the genre. | |
| 1 Mar 01 | Dorfman Theatre (National Theatre), West End :: V375 listing details L0446499239 |
