Heroes

About

The play is a comedy set in 1959 in a French retirement home for First World War veterans.  The action takes place on one of the terraces in the veteran’s hospital. It’s a ‘private’ terrace in the sense that the three veterans have ‘captured’ it for their own use, and do not invite anyone else to share it. It’s a ‘world within a world’, a sort of mini-empire with obvious echoes of the causes of the First World War itself.

The three veterans,  Henri , Gustave, and Philippe, while away their time in discussion about fellow inmates, or the nuns who care for them, or make plans for a journey (which we know will never take place) to the distant poplar trees that seem to lure them from the security of their terrace.

Although there are very funny moments, ‘Heroes’ in general, is a ‘gentle’ comedy, somewhat in the style of the BBC's ‘Last of The Summer Wine’. It is a theatrical fusion of the comic, sad and absurd and was described on its first performance in London as "Hilarious and moving...achingly funny and piercingly sad."  (The Daily Telegraph)

Performance dates

Heroes be presented at The Little Theatre, River Street, Colne from Monday 19th Saturday 24th June at 7.30 nightly.   Tickets cost £7.00 for Monday and Tuesday and £7.50 Wednesday to Saturday, and  can be booked by telephone via the theatre answerphone (01282 861424).  Bookings will open on 1st June.  Alternatively you can book in person at the  bookings desk at Colne Library on Saturday 10th or Saturday 17th June from 11am to 1pm.