The production showed that everyone can be loved regardless of how they see themselves and that usually we are our own worst enemies when it comes to love. With a cast of 32 pupils the play was funny, carefree, touching and emotive all at once, thrilling audiences in Greeker over three nights of romance, wordplay and duelling Frenchmen, closing the Drama calendar for the academic year.Ĭhosen for the way that it treats the audience, Cyrano de Bergerac starts off humorously, imploring one to fall in love with the characters and become champions for both Cyrano and Christian, before settling into an unease when the Cadets are called off to War. However, even though the play of 1897 is based on the real Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac, it is not much more than invention and myth. The real Cyrano de Bergerac was indeed a novelist, playwright and duellist in the 17th century, like the Bergerac seen on stage today. 4 No such enthusiasm for a drama in verse had been known since the time of Hugo 's Hernani. 8 The first production lasted for more than 300 consecutive nights. Little do people know, but the play was based on the life of an actual person. The production of his heroic comedy Cyrano de Bergerac (28 December 1897, Thtre de la Porte Saint-Martin), with Benot-Constant Coquelin in the title role, was a triumph. Yet duelling foes, powerful rivals and a war against Spain all put the hero to the test in a comedic retelling of Edmond Rostand’s original play. Salvation of a kind arrives in the form of the handsome yet tongue-tied Christian de Neuvillette, skilfully played by Ben (E) might not Cyrano’s eloquence and Christian’s beauty together win Roxane? It features music by Frank Wildhorn and a. What he desires above all is the love of the beautiful Roxane, played by the excellent Clemmie (J).īut his problem is as plain as the nose on his face. Cyrano de Bergerac is a 2009 musical based on the 1897 French play by the same name written by Edmond Rostand. Swordsman, Philosopher, Poet, Raconteur Cyrano de Bergerac, expertly portrayed by Harry (A), is all of these things, but none of them makes him happy.

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