Heroic prowess can come in many different guises, whether that be your everyday hero making the right decision at the right time, individuals who have shown exemplary acts of heroism, friends and family who despite hardships are there for others and get on with the day to day no matter what… the list goes on. The concept of the hero a fun yet multi-faceted one, and one that Piers Black’s Catching Comets comments on further.
Hero – (noun) a person who is admired for great brave acts or fine qualities. The ‘hero’ is an archetype often portrayed within our literature, from fairy tales, to fantasy novels, to comic books as being the idealised embodiment of perfection, the one that ends up defeating the bad guys and saving the day. I’m sure, however, within our daily lives, we all have our very own ideas as to what heroes look like to us, and what this concept means within the real world. Exploring this concept of the ‘hero’ within his show Catching Comets, writer and director Piers Black tells us more about revisiting the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe piece, working with the creative team to realise the production and what we can expect!