Heroides

27 Jun

Directed by Em Sparkes | Produced by Noah Yang and Aria Wang | Written by Eddie Oliver, after Ovid

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Heroides

27 Jun

Director Em Sparkes
Producers Noah Yang, Aria Wang
Writer Eddie Oliver, after Ovid
Designer Olivia Gough

HISTORY’S WH*RES. The women the heroes forgot. Through verbatim text and conversations with sex workers, this is a radical reimagining of Ovid’s collection of poems by the same name. Olympia, an exclusive Soho gentlemen’s club, is open for business the night after one of the dancers has disappeared. Four workers are drawn together over a single night by the knowledge that not everything is as it seems.

ALSO LOOK OUT FOR: Hero ID’s Zine and Event – Watch the play, pick up a handmade zine created by the writer, and join us for an event soon to be announced. More information to be announced shortly.

Show duration: 75 mins
Content warnings: Sex work, references to death, abuse, drugs

Booking Info

Dates

Sat 27 Jun, 2:00pm
Sat 27 Jun, 7:00pm

Prices
Standard £7
Concessions (Mountview alumni/access/under 18/student/unemployed)* £6
Southwark Presents Cardholder £5
Promotional Tickets: 3 plays £13
Venue

The Backstage Theatre, Mountview, 120 Peckham Hill Street, London SE15 5JT

To Book

020 8881 2201

Our box office hours are currently Monday-Friday 9am-8pm and Saturday 9am-3pm. Online booking is 24 hours, but phone and in-person bookings should be made within these times. Tickets are booked subject to Mountview's terms and conditions

Access and Concessions Bookings

*Please bring proof of ID when purchasing concession tickets. Access tickets are charged at the concession rate. Audience members who require a companion ticket can book this by contacting the box office team on [email protected] or 020 8881 2201.

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Em Sparkes

Director

Em Sparkes is a director and choreographer specialising in Classical texts and musical theatre. Their work is driven by a desire to tell emotionally truthful stories rooted in the lived experiences of people from marginalised communities. Having earned their BA in English at Cambridge, they bring a strong textual background, a generative rehearsal-room practice, and a deep belief in theatre as a space for empathy, visibility, challenge and change. Em is also the Sitz Manager for the London Musical Theatre Orchestra.

Noah Yang

Producer

Noah Yang is a creative producer working between London and Shenzhen. His practice focuses on theatre, particularly bilingual and cross-cultural performance. He is currently training on the MA Creative Producing at Mountview, where he is producing multiple works for VIEW Festival and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
With a background in industrial design and experience in product management, his work is informed by a strong interest in systems, collaboration, and delivering projects within constrained production frameworks.

Aria Wang

Producer

Aria is a creative producer based in London and Shanghai, specialising in stage productions and selectively collaborating on wider arts and creative projects. She holds a BA in Accounting and is currently pursuing an MA in Creative Producing at Mountview. She has contributed to international tour productions, festivals and short film projects. Her current work centers on the production of original and commercial productions, and on facilitating cross-regional exchange and circulation of theatrical works.

Eddie Oliver

Writer

Eddie Oliver is a writer, performer and multi disciplinary artist. He loves dark comedy, and has a great fondness for horror and the gothic. He is interested in using genre to subvert expectations and explore previously untold stories and overlooked perspectives. With a background in education, he aims to create work that challenges and provokes an audiences as well as entertains. His award winning show Beautiful Nothing (5 stars, Palatinate) had a sold out run in Camden People's Theatre.