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'Cyrano is the most interesting person in any room – a wordsmith, a charmer, a ruthless fighter. She works twice as hard and runs twice as fast as any of the pretty boys, because she's deeply ashamed of something about herself. She's fallen hard for Roxanne, the brilliant, beautiful new girl in town with a penchant for poetry and a way with words. Just like Cyrano. But Roxanne's only got eyes for Yan: hot, manly Yan; all-brawn-and-no brains Yan, who's dumbstruck around Roxanne – probably shy, right? Until suddenly he starts saying the most amazing things. But it's not Yan writing these perfect love scenes, it's Cyrano …'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Production Details
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Set for production by Melbourne Theatre Company from 2 August to 8 September 2021. Cyrano was given three preview performances at 18% capacity of the venue before Victoria went back into lockdown.
Production cancelled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Melbourne Theatre Company applied for broadcast exemptions to film the production for MTC Digital Theatre, but were not successful. (Source: MTC press release.)
Director: Sarah Goodes.
Music Director and Composer: Xani Kolac.
Set Designer: Elizabeth Gadsby.
Costume Designer: Jo Briscoe.
Lighting Designer: Paul Jackson.
Sound Designer: Kelly Ryall.
Cast: Holly Austin (3), Robin Goldswirthy (2), Milo Hartill (1), Virginia Gay (Cyrano), Claude Jabbour (Yan), and Tuuli Narkle (Roxanne).
Rescheduled for production by Melbourne Theatre Company, 24 September to 29 October 2022.
Presented by Black Swan Theatre Company in association with Perth Festival (as a Melbourne Theatre Company production) at Heath Ledger Theatre, Perth, 17 February - 5 March 2023.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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[Review] : Cyrano
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 448 2022; (p. 54)
— Review of Cyrano 2021 single work drama 'In Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921), a handful of people enter a stage during a rehearsal and begin to break down the very structures of theatre itself. They question not just the verisimilitude of acting but the essentialism of character, the idea that we are ever any one thing fixed in time. It is a concept that animates Virginia Gay’s free adaptation of Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac (1897): this is a tragic hero who pushes at the confines of their assigned role, daring to imagine not just an alternate ending but an entirely new way of being Cyrano.'(Introduction)
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Cyrano Review – Virginia Gay Shines in This Bold, Queer Reimagining
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 14 October 2022;
— Review of Cyrano 2021 single work drama 'After being scuppered by a snap lockdown in 2021, Gay’s highly anticipated take on Cyrano turns out to have been worth waiting for' -
MTC’s Cyrano
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 8-14 October 2022;
— Review of Cyrano 2021 single work drama'Cyrano – a contemporary adaptation of Edmond Rostand’s 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac playing at the Melbourne Theatre Company – is another tour de force from Virginia Gay that tempts us with a romantic, all-consuming love fired by intellectual and creative connection. It is clever, witty, challenging, funny, touching and thought-provoking. It’s like a great first date – you get caught up talking and don’t even notice until the place starts closing around you.' (Introduction)
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MTC’s Cyrano
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 8-14 October 2022;
— Review of Cyrano 2021 single work drama'Cyrano – a contemporary adaptation of Edmond Rostand’s 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac playing at the Melbourne Theatre Company – is another tour de force from Virginia Gay that tempts us with a romantic, all-consuming love fired by intellectual and creative connection. It is clever, witty, challenging, funny, touching and thought-provoking. It’s like a great first date – you get caught up talking and don’t even notice until the place starts closing around you.' (Introduction)
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Cyrano Review – Virginia Gay Shines in This Bold, Queer Reimagining
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 14 October 2022;
— Review of Cyrano 2021 single work drama 'After being scuppered by a snap lockdown in 2021, Gay’s highly anticipated take on Cyrano turns out to have been worth waiting for' -
[Review] : Cyrano
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 448 2022; (p. 54)
— Review of Cyrano 2021 single work drama 'In Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921), a handful of people enter a stage during a rehearsal and begin to break down the very structures of theatre itself. They question not just the verisimilitude of acting but the essentialism of character, the idea that we are ever any one thing fixed in time. It is a concept that animates Virginia Gay’s free adaptation of Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac (1897): this is a tragic hero who pushes at the confines of their assigned role, daring to imagine not just an alternate ending but an entirely new way of being Cyrano.'(Introduction)
