Heroes

One must strive a little for the epic, old boy.

It's 1959 and Philippe, Gustave and Henri, three veterans from the first world war, dream of making their escape from the soldiers' home, if not to Indochina then at least as far as the poplar trees on the hill...

Gérald Sibleyras's Le Vent des Peupliers premiered at the Wyndham's Theatre, London, in October 2005 as Heroes, an English-language version by Tom Stoppard. It received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy in 2006.



Tom Stoppard's work for the stage includes

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Jumpers, Travesties, Night and Day, After Magritte, The Real Thing, Entera Free Man,

Hapgood,

Arcadia,Indian Ink (a stage adaptation of his own play,

In the Native State),

The Invention of Love, which won him his seventh

Evening Standard Award, and

Voyage, Shipwreck and Salvage - three sequential self-contained plays that comprise

The Coast of Utopia.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead,

Travesties and

The Real Thing won Tony Awards. His radio plays include:

If You're Glad, I'll be Frank,

Albert's Bridge (Italia Prize

), Where Are They Now?, Artist Descending a Staircase, The Dog It Was That Died and

Inthe Native State (Sony Award). Work for television includes

Professional Foul (Bafta Award, Broadcasting Press Guild Award). His film credits include

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, which he also directed (winner of the Golden Lion, Venice Film Festival) and, with Mark Norman,

Shakespeare in Love.