Les Indésirables
Avant Première
- A stunning production that empowers all those whom nobody wants.
- 19-29 january 2027 TnS - Théâtre National de Strasbourg — Strasbourg, FR
A masquerade in which those whom the world hides reveal themselves, serenades that invite those whom nobody wants to join the dance: Les Indésirables is a fable in which rejected figures come forward with great fanfare to bear witness.
Strangers, vermin, untouchables, outcasts, marginalised people, the unloved, disinherited children, repudiated women, witches, magical creatures from forbidden realms, and all those treated as foreign bodies to our hearts, our nations, our worlds – are here celebrated and placed at the centre in a grand plea that is both romantic and political. Following Rectum Crocodile, presented in 2025 at the TnS, Marvin M’toumo — a multifaceted artist whose work encompasses fashion, writing, performance, theatre and music — continues to develop an aesthetic in which chimeras and all fragmented identities are finally celebrated.
Bio
Marvin M'toumo is an artist and designer whose distinctive poetry transcends academic distinctions between art, theater, literature, and fashion, embracing a cross-disciplinary practice. A graduate of Villa Arson in Nice and the Fashion and Accessory Design section of the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD), he is one of the winners of the Hyères International Fashion and Photography Festival at Villa Noailles. He founded his own fashion label and performing arts company, through which he imagines, writes, directs, designs, performs, and creates the costumes for his first fashion show/performance, Concours de larmes, at the Théâtre de l'Usine in Geneva. In 2023, with his team, he produced his second fashion show/performance, Rectum Crocodile, a decolonial fable, presented at the ADC Pavilion in Geneva. He has since collaborated with the National Theater of Strasbourg and its students on a new fashion show/performance.