Based on Victor Hugo's novel of the same name. The gypsy girl Esmeralda falls in love with the handsome and frivolous imperial guard, Forbes. Voulaud, vicar of Notre-Dame de Paris, is obsessed with Esmeralda's beauty and assassinates Forbes, who is dating Esmeralda. He is sentenced to death as a murderer and is rescued by Quasimodo, an ugly but kind-hearted bell-ringer, who takes refuge in Notre Dame. When Quasimodo discovers that Froude has killed Esmeralda, he throws him from the top floor to his death and kills himself next to Esmeralda's body.

 

 

Paul Stebbing, Artistic Director of TNT Theatre and Director, says that a strong sense of social morality and justice, a brilliant narrative and the thrill of reading have made this literary masterpiece. The themes explored in Notre Dame de Paris, such as religion and morality, religious fundamentalism, sex and love, have greater relevance today than they did in Hugo's time. Although there are few visual depictions of Paris, Notre-Dame de Paris is the drama of Paris, and Notre-Dame de Paris is the real protagonist. In Hugo's view, modernity was gradually obliterating the incomparable beauty of Paris, and Notre-Dame de Paris is his elegy for the city.

 

 

TNT's version of Notre Dame de Paris is vibrant, flamboyant and visually powerful. The French dialogue is classically elegant and clearly accessible, while the original music, a signature of TNT Theatre, is an important organic part of the production.

 

 

 

TNT is an acronym for both dynamite and new theatre, a theatre that strives to blend all forms of theatre into an explosive new theatre, based on a variety of theatrical elements, including traditional British theatre, the physical theatre of Eastern European masters Gorotovsky and Meyerhold and Italian masquerade comedy. All productions have a new score by a commissioned composer, a collaborative effort between the director and choreographer, and the casting of actors based on their ability to combine theatre, music and dance.

 

TNT is not only the English-language theatre company that has toured the most countries and venues worldwide, but has also created a large number of plays in French, Spanish and Russian, with Notre Dame de Paris, directed by Paul Stebbing and starring a full cast of French actors, being its masterpiece of French-language drama.

 

 

Playwright
Paul Stebbings

Founder and Artistic Director of TNT Theatre in the UK. He founded TNT Theatre in 1980, which has been described as "the premier touring theatre company" and "a moving and fascinating theatre" (The Village Voice, New York). Paul Stebbing has received numerous awards, including various prizes at the Munich Biennale, the Edinburgh Festival and the Frankfurt Festival. In recognition of his outstanding contribution to theatre, he was awarded the Order of the British Empire (MBE) by the Queen in 2013.

Director
Gaspard Legendre

Director and actor active in France and England, graduate of the Paris Conservatoire and the London Academy of Music and Drama (LAMDA). His directing credits include The Heart of a Fairy Tale, My Favourite Summer, No Sickness, Notre Dame de Paris, A Game of Chance and Love, The Aristocrats, The Beginning, The Little Prince and Animal Farm. In 2017 he won the Berlin Welten Bauer Prize for Sickless.

Jérémy Branger

as Quasimodo

Born in Versailles in 1989, his theatre credits include The Messenger, Guillecassus, The Cavalier of Athananam, The Playboy of the Western World. The Court of Miracles and The Knight of D'Artagnan, among others. He is extremely musical, a long singer and composer, plays several instruments and is good at fencing. He was the arranger of the musical Exit and sang most of the musical compositions he wrote.

Zelia Pelacani Catalano

as Esmeralda

Born in Rome, Italy in 1995, she trained as a dancer in Italy and the USA and graduated from the International Academy of Performing Arts in Versailles, France. Her works include Britannicus, Hamlet, Scaramusia, Opera Underground, The Birds, Solio and The Revolt of Epictetus. 2023 she took part in the tour of TNT Theatre's Notre Dame de Paris in France, Italy, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Hungary and Slovenia.

Noemie Colardeau
as Lily

After completing her undergraduate studies in literature and acting, she went on to study at the Aquitaine Theatre School and the Advanced School of Anjou Theatre (ASTA). She specialises in the fusion of theatre, singing and dance and her works include the plays Hamlet, Molière and Don Juan and the musicals Kabbalah and Avenue Q. She participated in the European tours of Notre Dame de Paris and The Little Prince.

Arthur Perraud
as Frollo

Arthur Perrault fell in love with theatre through Jean de la Fontaine's fable The Young Widow, studied in Paris with director Stephen Druitt and graduated from the School of Popular Theatre in Nantes, France. He specialises in music and has written a one-man show, "The Jean de la Fontaine Experience", which combines poetry, music and theatre in a variety of performing arts.

Christophe Delesques
as Forbes

Studied theatre at the Movement Theatre, contemporary dance at the Laban Dance Centre in London and acting for film and television at City College London. Collaborated with theatre directors including Nicolas Vivier, Gaspar Lejeune, Sami Kali, Anne Shlomit Dionne and Claudia Nura and starred in the TNT Theatre production of Molière's "Sickless". For his starring roles in the British films Odile (2023) and Exit (2020), Christophe Delesquez was nominated for Best Actor at the GenreBlast Film Festival in the USA.