Hero
From: Friday, 23rd November 2012
To: Saturday, 22 December 2012
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Synopsis
We can only do this, if we go by the book. Announcing you're gay to minors is not in the book. That's in the other book. Danny's gay, a primary school teacher, and he's not afraid of anything. His colleague Jamie's straight, and thinks he should be. E. V. Crowe brings her distinctive voice to the story of a heroic modern man.
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Michael Coveney - 30 November 2012
E.V. Crowe’s hero could be the wonderful Daniel Mays as Jamie, a jumpy primary school teacher who finds himself on the wrong end of a homophobic witch-hunt instigated by a seven year-old pupil while his partner is trying to get pregnant.
Or perhaps it’s Liam Garrigan’s out-gay Danny from Sheffield, who works in the same school as Jamie and who’s made a breakthrough, he thinks, by writing himself into a classroom sea adventure where he’s pulled to safety after saying he lives with his husband.
It’s certainly not that husband, Tim Steed’s precise and regular radio producer, Joe, who would not be happy about their putative adopted child being taught by someone “openly gay” and who thinks that most people reckon that homosexual primary school teachers must be paedophiles.
We don’t meet Jamie’s partner, Susannah Wise’s patient (and now pregnant) Lisa, until the second act. But the t...
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Jcqueline - 8 December 2012:
It was a really fantastic play totally absorbing great evening Danny mays is superb...
Cast
Liam Garrigan (Danny)
Daniel Mays (Jamie)
Tim Steed (Joe)
Susannah Wise (Lisa)
Creative
E.V. Crowe (Author)
Coutts (Corporate Sponsor)
Royal Court Theatre (Producer)
Jeremy Herrin (Director)
Mike Britton (Design)
Rick Fisher (Lighting)
Ian Dickinson (for Autograph) (Sound)
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