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Cyrano de Bergerac
Edmond Rostand
Cyrano de Bergerac (Crimp)
by Edmond Rostand, Martin Crimp
Off-Broadway West End
Highlights
120 mins Present Day Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle) Unit Set/Multiple Settings Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes
Awards & Recognition
Olivier Award
Winner! 2020 Olivier Award for Best Revival
Synopsis
This “breathtakingly exciting” ( Evening Standard ) theatrical tour-de-force captures timeless passion through spoken word, contemporary poetry and raw physicality.
Cyrano seduces in raps and rhymes, using his linguistic brilliance to help another man win the heart of his one true love, championing – above all – his own unbridled love for words.
A genius with language, Cyrano secretly loves the radiant Roxane, but she loves the beautiful but inarticulate Christian.
Convinced of his own ugliness, Cyrano offers to act as go-between, setting in motion a poignant and often hilarious love triangle in which each character is torn between the lure of physical attraction and the seductive power of words.
Press Reviews
"Alive with the love of language... This is not your grand-mère’s Cyrano. Replacing Rostand’s stately 12-syllable alexandrines with jumpier rhythms, its euphemisms with plain speech and its perfect rhymes with ones so slant they serve as italics, Crimp rockets the action to a world drunk on language as it’s actually spoken. It’s also a world in which, as the baker Ragueneau (now a poet, too) predicts, ‘There’s going to be a new force of words’... I spent most of the production’s swift two acts fully engaged in its humor, pathos and fury."
— The New York Times
"A revivifying take on Cyrano. With a whip-smart script by Martin Crimp, the production highlights a cool new vocabulary for Edmond Rostand’s sentimental monument to love."
— The Washington Post
"★★★★★ “I defy anyone not to fall in love with it."
— The Telegraph
"★★★★★ “Funny, thrilling and deeply moving."
— WhatsOnStage
"★★★★★ “The most breathtakingly exciting show in London right now."
— Evening Standard
Characters
| Character |
|---|
| Christian Man |
| Cyrano Man |
| De Guiche Man |
| Denise (Student) Woman |
| Le Bret Man |
| Lignière Man |
| Madame Ragueneau Woman |
| Man Man |
| Marie-Louise (Student) Woman |
| Montfleury Man |
| Priest Man |
| Roxane Woman |
| Valvert ManThe following roles can be played by actors of any gender: |
| Annoying Person |
| Armande (Student) |
| Audience Members And People Who Shout From The Auditorium |
| Fencing Referee |
| Group Of Soldiers* |
| Theatre Owner |
| Usher |
| Woman Sent By Roxane |
| Alastair Man |
Videos
Cyrano de Bergerac: National Theatre Live Trailer
Publication
Cyrano de Bergerac (Crimp) is a play written by Edmond Rostand and published by Samuel French .
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