Michael Fallow13:07, Jul 09 2021
Robyn Edie/Stuff
“You in the barricades, listen to this!
No one is coming to help you to fight . . . .’’ The chilling words from an unseen National Guardsman taunt the terribly outnumbered and outgunned student revolutionaries in the musical Les Miserables . The words have echoed through countless Invercargill rehearsals in recent months, each time drawing the defiant response:
Damn their warnings, damn their lies
They will see the people rise Ah. Now about that . These are lines that take on an extra resonance for the local company staging one of the world’s most beloved, certainly emotional, musicals.