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From the writer of Les Miserables
and the Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Man Who Laughs
based on Victor Hugo’s gothic epic
(premiere March 2007)
“Mankind is a mouth, of which I am the cry”
“ One night, one night of storm, a little deserted child, an orphan, alone in this immeasurable creation, I made my entrance into this darkness which you call society; the first thing I saw was the law, under the form of a gallows; the second was riches, your riches, under the form of a woman dead of cold and hunger; the third, the future, under the form of a child, left to die; the fourth, goodness, truth and justice, under the figure of a vagabond whose sole friend and companion was a wolf.”
This adventure begins on the coast of Cornwall in a stormy night, where Footsbarn began it’s own epic journey 35 years ago and our protagonists are travelling clowns. Set against the background of a Shakespearean world we travel to Southwark fair and the royal court in London.
An epic, a great human adventure to be told simply and fully, what’s more exciting ?
The play is in rehearsal from December till it's opening in March 2007, the first performances will be as always at our base in Hérisson.
click here for images from The Man Who Laughs
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