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© 2025 Experience Crieff, Crieff Regen, Scottish Charity No. SC0500890
Sat 04 Oct
|Strathearn Arts, Crieff
HERCULES THE BEAR
Don’t you love a tall tale? Like the one about the Scottish couple who raised a 10ft grizzly bear in their home? Combining physical comedy and puppetry, Hercules the Bear tells the wild, funny and touching true story of how a very special grizzly bear became a folk legend.
Time and location
04 Oct 2025, 18:00 – 22:00
Strathearn Arts, Crieff, 6 Comrie St, Crieff PH7 4AX, UK
About the event
Hercules ate cooked meals at the dinner table, played in the swimming pool and toured Highland Games and town fairs in the family’s wrestling show! People thought Andy and Maggie were mad - no one had ever tamed a grizzly bear before; Hercules didn't wear a muzzle; he wasn't chained or caged. But Hercules wasn’t trained as a performing animal - he was treated as one of the family.
Hercules The Bear is inspired by the incredible true story of a 10-foot grizzly bear who was bought as a cub from Kingussie Wildlife Park and raised by human parents.