'Better it is to die, better to starve,
Then crave the hire which first we do deserve.'

This ragged and vital play presents the fraught relationship between a dogmatic leader-warrior and his changeable, democratic community. The values of the blinkered individual are set against those of the people, in a play which questions whether heroes can exist at all.

Director | Delyth Jones
Delyth Jones studied English at Cambridge University, graduating in 2003. Having left university she worked for two and a half years for the Royal Shakespeare Company, as assistant to the Advisory Director and Shakespearean expert John Barton. She now works as a freelance director and in addition assists Corin and Kika Redgrave. Forthcoming projects include TONY BLAIR THE MUSICAL and the site-specific W.C. - both are to be performed at the Edinburgh Festival 2007. As Director: BEA - Hen and Chickens Theatre,THE LEGEND OF BEOWULF: A NEW MUSICAL - Cockpit Theatre, RETURN FROM GUANTANAMO - new writing workshops at ETC Theatre, THE RISE AND FALL OF DEON VONNIGET - Canal Café Theatre & Sweet ECA Edinburgh, JUDGMENT - Drama Studio Preston, Conway Hall London, A VALENTINE'S SHOWCASE - The Soho Theatre, GRACELAND ASLEEP ON THE WIND - Hen and Chickens Theatre, ROMEO AND JULIET - Cloister Court, Queens College, Cambridge, THE WINTER'S TALE - Fitzpatrick Hall, Cambridge, THE DIG - Quarantine Films. As Assistant Director: THE WAR THAT STILL GOES ON - RSC - John Barton - Novello Theatre.