Prisoner 24601, Jean Valjean, is released from prison and begins his bitter struggle for redemption. At his heels is his nemesis, the ruthless, puritanical policeman Javert, whose life’s work is to recapture Valjean.
Be prepared for a punchy and deeply moving ensemble drama. Set in a time when riot and revolution were in the air, this epic story of love, injustice and atonement is as relevant now as it ever was.
Jonathan Holloway makes his directorial debut for OVO with this actor-musician led revival of Hugo’s magnificent novel first produced in 1997 at the Edinburgh Festival and since performed across the globe. Jonathan founded multi-award-winning touring company Red Shift and has reinvented classics, made crowd-embedded performance, pocket musicals, circuses and new work for UK and international touring, as well as writing copiously for the BBC.
“A triumph of the imagination” ~ The Evening Standard
Content Guidance
Jonathan Holloway’s version of Les Misérables returns to the original gritty reality presented in the book by Victor Hugo. It has stories of young women who sell their teeth, their hair, and their bodies to survive; a ruthless policeman commits suicide; and few characters get to see a happy ending. For those that do, it is bittersweet.
