FIMP at TNSJ | 2026 | Les Misérables

A man steals a loaf of bread to feed his family. For that crime, he spends 19 years in prison and is forced to do hard labor in the galleys. This is the starting point of one of the greatest classics of world literature and the story that inspired the play premiered by Compagnie Karyatides in 2014, already performed more than 700 times. In this epic adaptation of *Les Misérables* for object theater, Jean Valjean, Cosette, and the other timeless characters from Victor Hugo's novel (1802-85) are represented by hundreds of clay and wooden figures, found by chance at antique fairs. Created and performed by Karine Birgé and Marie Delhaye, *Les Misérables* is a great fresco of humanity in search of justice, freedom, and a better world. “All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference. The same shadow before, the same flesh during, the same ash after.”