is more about Cyrano de Bergerac's first love: language. Yes, well, in the sense that fire can be considered a ‘new version’ of wood.” – Vulture the program says that the text is a ‘new version’ by Martin Crimp. strips the material down to the essential – the sword by which everyone in its 1640 Paris must live or die: the power of words.” – Theatrely “The sexiest, most thrilling production of the season. to a wrenchingly gorgeous profession of love rendered truthfully yet in deception.” – Deadline
is either a delight, an arrow, or both, from era-defying comic asides. “An alternately joyous and heartrending celebration of language – even the sword fights are rendered with nothing more than pointed words. has, in his sixties, written an absolute banger in his startling adaptation of Rostand.” – Time Out New York 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 spent most of the production’s swift two acts fully engaged in its humor, pathos and fury.” – The New York Times 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’. 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. a weaponless marvel of language.” – The Observer ★★★★★ “A beloved tale of yearning, beauty, and desire. ★★★★★ “The most breathtakingly exciting show in London right now.” – Evening Standard ★★★★★ “Funny, thrilling and deeply moving.” – WhatsOnStage ★★★★★ “I defy anyone not to fall in love with it.” – The Telegraph Open at the Harold Pinter Theatre for a strictly limited season, book Cyrano de Bergerac tickets for a second chance to experience this hugely inventive play, devised by some of the UK’s best theatre talents.★★★★★ “Mesmerising. McAvoy and director Jamie Lloyd have previously collaborated on The Ruling Class and Macbeth at Trafalgar Studios.
This bold and exciting reimagining of Cyrano de Bergerac, adapted by Martin Crimp ( Attempts on Her Life), premiered at the Playhouse Theatre in 2019, with James McAvoy in the title role. But will he ever reveal the truth behind his words?
When the handsome Christian professes his love for Roxane, lovestruck Cyrano writes poetry in his friend’s name. The Olivier Award-winning play returnsJames McAvoy and Jamie Lloyd reunite for a second season of their electrifying, Olivier Award-winning Cyrano de Bergerac, as the play returns to London for five weeks only.īased on Edmund Rostand’s French classic, Cyrano de Bergerac is the story of a nobleman and soldier who is talented in combat and poetry, but hampered by anxiety over his famously large nose.
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