Les Miserables: The Memoirs of Jean Valjean

Friday May 31st 2019 - 7.30pm
Saturday June 1st 2019 - 2pm & 7.30pm

Brixham Theatre
New Road/ Bolton Cross
Brixham
Devon TQ5 8TA

Tickets £10 (full-price), £8 (Consessions)
Tickets available from https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/devon/brixham-theatre/les-miserables, or by calling the Box office on 01803 415987.

This drama, originally performed by the South Devon Players in 2013 to full-houses, is a non-musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic drama of love, hope, redemption and revolution. The Players last production at Brixham Theatre, Macbeth, attracted such audience feedback as
"The power of the final scene was such that the audience sat transfixed in silence, barely able to comprehend the beauty of what they'd just witnessed."
"Easily on a par with the production of Macbeth we saw at the Globe"

Les Miserables is set in early 19th Century France, and follows the story of Jean Valjean, a convict who through the kindness of others, finds redemption; but, having broken parole and changed his identity in order to make a new life as the kindly mayor of a small town, is hunted mercilessly by Javert, who is unable to believe that anyone with a criminal record, can be anything but evil. After rescuing Cosette, the small daughter of a woman forced into poverty, from near-slavery, and escaping re-arrest by Javert, he reaches Paris. Years later, grown into a beautiful young woman, Cosette falls in love with a student and revolutionary, Marius. But their marriage is forbidden by Marius's aunt, on the eve of 1832 revolution. The revolution is brutally quelled, and Marius is rescued by Jean Valjean. Javert, who had been taken captive by the revolutionaries, is released by Valjean, but unable to comprehend this kind behaviour from someone who he viewed as evil, Javert takes his own life. Marius and Cosette are finally given permission to marry, and Valjean gives them a diary telling his life story....

The South Devon Players theatre and film company, founded in 2005/6 on the proceeds of a carboot sale, are winners of the national Epic Award 2017 for England, a national arts award celebrating creativity and innovation in grassroots arts, and international nominations for past productions. A professional theatre company based in Brixham, the Players primarily specialise in researched historical theatre productions and old "Classics".

Laura Jury (the director) studied performing arts at South Devon college, then went to Plymouth to do a Bachelors degree in film & TV production, before progressing to Exeter University to complete a Masters degree in teaching theatre. With a history of performing since 1996, and directing since 2000, in between her training she has also pursued a career as a professional performer, and in 2006 founded the now multi award-winning South Devon Players Theatre & Film Company with three others, to create new projects in Torbay.


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