Details

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. World Premiere

Cast/Performers

Adrian Bower (Mister Heracles), Patrick Toomey (Theseus), Clare McCarron (Megara), Matthew Scurfield (Smphitryon), Rupert Holliday Evans (Lycus), Nick Bagnall (Madness), Georgina Roberts (Iris), Marie Collett, George Innes, Jim Findley

Creatives/Company

Author: Simon Armitage
Director(s): Natasha Betteridge, Simon Godwin
Design: Laura Hopkins
Lighting: Laura Hopkins
Music: Nick Powell
Sound(s): Lucy Wilkins, Mic Poole (sound consultant)