Herakles!

New Music theatre by Neil Luck & ARCO

Offspring of an immortal father and a mortal mother, Hercules is an oddity – in possession of unnatural gifts, but bound by the same wheezing, aching, bleeding, flatulent body as the rest of us. This ‘divine-fart’ is the singularity of a musical black-hole in Herakles!, drawing in, distending, and ultimately obliterating a freely syncretic car-crash of references to classical and less classical demigods. Via various scraps of cultural flotsam and jetsam the myth finds its ultimate allegory in the traditional British Mummers play, a bawdy and incredulous tale of miraculous resurrection.

Following it’s critically unclaimed premiere in 2013, Herakles! is being resurrected for a series of UK live dates this Summer/Autumn.

7th August – Live broadcast on Resonance 104.4FM, 8:30pm
9th August – Kings Place Hall 1, Tete a Tete Festival, 8pm
10th August – Kings Place Hall 1, Tete a Tete Festival, 4pm
11th October – Milton Keynes Art Gallery 7:30pm
Further dates tbc

CAST LIST

Written and directed by Neil Luck

Live Performers:

ARCO

Neil Luck – Voice/Objects
Chihiro Ono – Violin
Benedict Taylor – Viola
Sam Rice – Doubelbass
Adam de la Cour – Electric Guitar/Voice
Tom Jackson – Clarinet

“You Got Caged”™ (or 4’33” of Mortal Kombat)

Takahiro Tomatsu – Johnny Cage/ The Spirit of Hercules/ The Earthrealm Representative
Neil Luck – The Challenger / The Otherworld Representative
Elo Masing – Marionette-Violin
Ruta Vitkauskaite – Marionette-Violin
Owen Stark & Adam de la Cour – Camera operators

“Muscle Movie”
By Adam de la Cour

Generously Supported by Arts Council England and the RVW trust