Heroes

Set in August 1959 in a home somewhere in France for retired military men, Heroes takes place outside on a terrace in the garden of a convent hospital where Gustav, Philippe and Henri are hatching a plan to escape…with their marble canine companion. Although adapted from Gerald Sibleyras’s French play, Le Vent De Peupliers, Heroes is stylistically Stoppard: "Stoppard means verbal comedy, wit, some physical gags, and a fierce intellectualism siphoned through entertaining characters and unlikely situations," explains Paul Todaro, director of The Kavinoky’s production, in a recent interview. We follow the "adventures of three World War One vets in a home for the elderly. Bored, lonely, and fearful of their inevitable end, they embark on a series of ‘missions’ that are simultaneously hysterical, poignant, absurd, and ‘heroic.’"