Les Miserables is an exciting story, a love story, a story of revolution, abuse of power and redemption.

“In adapting the novel, which runs over 1,200 pages, I wanted to include the major characters and their evolution as the story progresses. Hugo, like Dickens, starts with a few characters, adds more in other locations, and by the time the story ends, manages to connect them all,” Miller said.

The production will have music but is not a musical. Long-time music and sound collaborator, Jim Hall, will support the action with a sound design that will include music linking events and supporting the mood. “There is a singer,” Miller added. “A wonderful young character named Gavroche who sings improvised lyrics at the barricades.”

Playing lead roles are Jesse Leighton, Carrie Bell-Hoerth and Seth Berner from Portland; Kevin Calderwood and Bethany Joy Burrill, Theater Project alumni; Meghan McGuire and Liz Washington from the theater’s Young Company; and Shawn Bayrd, all students at Brunswick High School; and Maggie Adolf, a student at Harriet Beecher Stowe School.

The performances are scheduled for March 15-17, and March 22-24. Performance times are 7:30 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, and 2 p.m. on Sundays at 14 School Street. All tickets are Pay-What-You-Want, and are available online at www.theaterproject.com, or by calling the box office at 729-8584.