Helios
‘Very cleverly involves the audience in an hour in which past and present, the ancient and the contemporary, lightness and darkness mingle’ Lyn Gardner
A lad lives half way up a historic hill. A teenager is on a road trip to the city in a stolen car. A boy is driving a chariot, pulling the sun across the sky.
This is a story about the son of the god of the sun.
Helios transplants the Ancient Greek tale into a modern-day myth wound round the winding roads of rural England and into the everyday living of a towering city. It’s a story about life, the invisible monuments we build to it and the little things that leave big marks.
From ‘Masters of Storytelling’ (Fourthwall) Wright & Grainger, Helios is the award-winning follow up to the internationally-acclaimed Orpheus, Eurydice, and The Gods The Gods The Gods.
Join them in our intimate Studio setting with a tape player - and delicate tale to tell.
‘Quiet Intimacy & Boyhood Wonder’ The Guardian
‘Powerful’ The Scotsman
‘This company truly are the best at storytelling’ Threeweeks
‘Electric hour of performance’ Playbill
★★★★★ Threeweeks
★★★★ Broadway Baby
★★★★ The Wee Review
Run time: 70 minutes
Written & Told by Alexander Wright Music by Phil Grainger
Studio
£16