by Gerald Sibleyras

Translated by Tom Stoppard
Directed by James Bohnen
Featuring Artistic Associate David Darlow and guest artists Mike

Nussbaum and Roderick Peeples

Tom Stoppard's translation of Gérald Sibleyras' play won the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy.  It's 1959 and Philippe, Gustave and Henri, three veterans from WWI keep each other company on the back terrace of a retired soldiers' home. Through a series of witty scenes, the men goad one another into new adventures.  The men's cantankerous camaraderie becomes strained as they plot an expedition to Indochina, or at least as far as the poplar trees on the distant hill. Heroes is a funny and bittersweet play about memory and "not going gently into that good night."