Hector’s House 2002
When Paris nicked off with Helen,
who would have dreamed of all the fuss that was to follow?
Greece is the word for classic comedy
Runcorn Weekly News
Classical Greek Tragedy evolved in incremental stages.
The play that launched 1000 origami ships. A stroke of genius.
Alfred Hinckling, The Guardian
They’re horse with laughter
Crewe Chronicle
Can’t remember much about Hector’s House? Well neither can Zeus’s hopeless secretary Amnesia
How to create a giant wooden horse? Well we had a huge rope onstage leading offstage, then we photoshopped an image of a wooden horse next to a local landmark at every theatre we played, so giant horse dwarfing the Blackpool Tower, the Liver building, Greenwich Observatory etc. This was fine when there was a well know local landmark, but in Stoke we had to make do with the theatre car park, and as a local Ipswich resident pointed out, there are no landmarks in Ipswich. The highlight of this show was the interval where the audience made origami boats. Some people purloined bottles from the bar to create a ship in a bottle, others crafted triremes using cocktail sticks, it was amazing. And after the interval we launched a thousand ships. A marvellous moment of British theatre.”
Directed by Gwenda Hughes & Mark Chatterton
Designed by Richard Foxton
Music by Mark Vibrans
