A post-punk cabaret disruption incorporating Heiner Müller's >Heracles 5<

Every Aussie loves a good hero. Someone to look up to, to cheer for.
But can we separate the myth from the reality.

A contemporary disruption of the Greek myth of Heracles, Heracles High 5, dives headlong into the apathy and idolisation of the modern Australian hero culture. In a romp of militaristic proportions, the 2010 incarnation of Heracles, accompanied by a post-punk three-piece band and moderated by a variety emcee, hauls us though his sins, labours and salvation, through the interpreted Müller episode (his contemporary 'labour'), to a final station inside the action and ambition of the common citizen.

What future our idols now?

"profound theatrical intelligence" – The Age

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