A successful premiere of Herakles
On Sunday 30th April, Tim Benjamin's Herakles premiered to a packed house in Todmorden Town Hall. Audience ratings of the work were overwhelmingly positive with the music, performers and occassion all received more than 4 stars.
Lively, intense, interesting, good combination of music and speech. Most enjoyable.
For more information and photographs please see the Musical Drama page.
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