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Hero

Bewley’s Cafe Theatre, Dublin

Until December 1

Rating:***

Ken Rogan’s one-man play Hero is a contemporary love story straining towards the epic. Smithy is our hero, a modern-day Odysseus. Or that’s what he thinks anyway, as he invokes the classic Homerian myth to provide structure to his tale of thwarted love. Other people might struggle to place him in such illustrious company. Unemployed and full of rage, he is more like the ...