compagnie karyatides
[BÉLGICA]
les misérables
23 of May at 21h30 p.m.
24 of May at 21h30 p.m.
Cineteatro Curvo Semedo – Stage
Age Classification: M/09
An object theatre adaptation of Victor Hugo’s novel.
This is the story of a man who lost everything, an outcast whose past as a convict catches up to him and who sacrifices himself for a child whom fate entrusted to him.
This is the story of a woman reduced to selling her body and abandoning her child ; of a fanatical and untiring cop; of a free-spirited and impudent street urchin; of unfair justice; of man’s battle between good and evil of a chase that lasts for years and of a man whose conscience is constantly put to the test. It’s the story of a desperate people who rises up to defend its ideal to the very end.
We are an object theatre company. Our credo is “Review your classics”.
To best serve the literary monuments that we adapt, we develop a theatre of characters combining puppets, object theatre, shadows, paper, visual arts and music.
The aesthetics we put forth are raw, bare, small and intimate. The characters of our stories and the scenes of their adventures come from second hand shops and flea markets. We glean them randomly while creating, we come upon them by chance during our tours… Let’s admit it : flea markets have always itched us.
“Object theatre is like the flag bearer of an art form of resistance, more modern than ever, which is to culture what recycling or slow food is to our ways of life: a humble and magnificent side-step.”
(Catherine Mekereel, Le Soir, 13/01/2015)
© Alice Piemme / Yves Gabriel
