Herakles!

New Music-Theatre
Written and Directed by Neil Luck
Performed by ARCO

Herakles! Is a new piece of music-theatre drawing on an eclectic range of influences from contemporary classical music, concrete poetry, slapstick comedy, free improvisation, Kabuki theatre and Broadway showstoppers, filtered through the highly idiosyncratic and avant-garde texts of Richard Foreman.
A surreal and absurdist take on the Herculean labours this piece, performed by some of London's most adventurous musicians, will delight, baffle and enlighten in equal measure.

Retelling the Greek myth through wild allegorical misinterpretations, mistranslations and miscreancy, Herakles! is a cultural black-hole drawing-in, distending, and ultimately obliterating ancient and modern embodiments of the demi-god. A tasteful fusion of Appolodorus, Schwarzenegger, Tereyama, Hendrix, Disney, Arcane British Folk Rituals, and Aragoto-style Kabuki plays.