Heroes by Gérald Sibleyras Translated by Tom Stoppard heading to Oldbury Rep

It's the summer of 1959 and three retired veterans are plotting their escape from their home - how far will their imaginations take them?

By contributor Tim Ward

Published Sep 22

Last updated Sep 22

Heroes is set in August 1959 in a home somewhere in France for retired military men. The play takes place outside on a terrace in the garden of a convent hospital and home where First World War veterans Philippe, Gustave and Henri are hatching a plan to escape - if not to Indochina then at least as far as the poplar trees on the hill…

"Tom Stoppard's contribution is of course his magnificent wit and choice of scintillating language." - Curtain Up Review

"Hilarious and moving...achingly funny and piercingly sad." - The Daily Telegraph

"Gerald Sibleyras' 90-minute French comedy, given an elegant English gloss by its translator Tom Stoppard and the ironic title Heroes, achieves a seductive fusion of the comic, sad and absurd." Nicholas de Jongh, Evening Standard

This amateur production of ‘After September’ is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Samuel French Ltd.

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