HERO: The Muse Musical

"Hero is the best performance the University will see in the next decade - if not longer."
- The Daily Princetonian

HERO originated as a Senior Thesis in the departments of Anthropology and Theater at Princeton University. The piece was conceived by Eamon Foley, inspired by the music of Muse and interviews conducted with Vietnam War veterans. I do not own this music.

Inspired by interviews conducted with Vietnam War veterans and the music of UK rock sensation Muse, Eamon Foley has written, directed, choreographed, an original aerial-dance, rock musical about a boy’s experience being drafted into the Vietnam War. Shifting between realism and surrealism, Hero considers the ways in which war possesses the power to bring us closer to our animal selves and make us question all the truths we hold inherent.

Hero produced at Princeton University where it receives the Francis LeMoyne Page Theater Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Creative Art, the Outstanding Senior Thesis Award and the Santos-Dumont Prize for Innovation. The piece inspired the documentary Hero: The Making of a Senior Thesis.

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