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Heroes

G?rald Sibleyras

Tom Stoppard

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...

G?rald 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.

G?rald Sibleyras

G?rald Sibleyras was born in Paris in 1961. Heroes, or Le Vent des Peupliers, was originally commissioned by Th??tre Montparnasse and received four Moli?re nominations in 2003. His other plays include Le Banc, La Danse de l'Albatros and and three plays co-written with Jean Dell: Le B?ret de la Torture, Une Heure et Demie de Retard and Un Petit Jeu sans Cons?quence, which received five Moli?re awards in 2003.

Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard (1937-2025). His work includes Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Real Inspector Hound, Jumpers, Travesties, Night and Day, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, After Magritte, Dirty Linen, The Real Thing, Hapgood, Arcadia, Indian Ink, The Invention of Love, the trilogy The Coast of Utopia, Rock 'n' Roll, The Hard Problem and Leopoldstadt.
His radio plays include If You're Glad I'll Be Frank, Albert's Bridge, Where Are They Now?, Artist Descending a Staircase, The Dog It Was That Died, In the Native State and Darkside (incorporating Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon).
Television work includes Professional Foul, Squaring the Circle and Parade's End.
Film credits include Empire of the Sun, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, which he also directed, Shakespeare in Love, Enigma and Anna Karenina.