Live Theatre Performance: Les Misérables, Queen’s Theatre, London. The remarkable Les Misérables (produced by Cameron Mackintosh, directed by Trevor Nunn and John Caird) based upon the 1862 novel by Victor Hugo, took the stage superbly now somewhat 23 years ago and still delights audiences of the 21st century who witness the stimulating performance by incredible dramatic devices that explore the contemporary topics of poverty, crime and punishment, prejudice and the fight for freedom. Spatial area saw the actors within the imaginary four walls of theatre therefore there was no physical or direct communication to the audience to make relationships closer, this theory remained constant, however didn’t distract the audience from the performance whereas the passion engrossed the audience to stay enthusiastic with the show. Visually Les Misérables mesmerised, the motivation of this would have been John Napier’s cleverly designed revolving stage set within the traditional proscenium arch allowing for the representation of different locations, in particular creating the realistic 2-D world of the Barricades where we as an audience felt much more involved because it didn’t become flat
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