Cyrano De Bergerac – Noël Coward Theatre, London

Cyrano de Bergerac review: Conquering hero – this Cyrano is a bittersweet joy

Adrian Lester is magnificent as the big-nosed, big-hearted soldier-bard in this witty and unbearably moving Royal Shakespeare Company revival of Edmond Rostand’s 1897 verse play. Director Simon Evans and writer Debris Stevenson, who is a poet as well as a playwright, academic and “professional raver”, embrace the theatricality of the drama and also warmly embrace the audience in way that’s light years away from the National’s current, self-consc…

Review: Cyrano  de Bergerac at Noël Coward Theatre

“I spent much of the epilogue with tears running down my face” Before seeing Cyrano de Bergerac, my knowledge of the play was largely assembled from cultural osmosis. I knew Cyrano had a spectacular nose, I knew he possessed an even more spectacular command of language, and I’d even often claimed I’d played the role of a Cyrano myself. Not through dazzling poetry or impossible romantic sacrifice, mind you. More by convincing 5’11” econ-bros that…

Review: 'Cyrano de Bergerac' at the Noël Coward Theatre

Adrian Lester plays Edmond Rostand's poet and soldier in the RSC production, now playing at the Noël Coward Theatre on the West End. The post ‘Cyrano de Bergerac’ review – Adrian Lester gives a sublime, commanding performance appeared first on Liam O'Dell.

Cyrano de Bergerac – RSC – The Noel Coward Theatre

Cyrano De Bergarac is a classic 1897 play by French playwright Edmond Rostand, and has been performed numerous times and starred many famous actors over the years. This is a new version for the RSC by Simon Evans and Debris Stevenson, making its London transfer from the Stratford stage, and it is a corker! Evans and Stevenson have kept the original plot and managed to retain much of the poetic style while making it up-to-date, lively, very funny…

CYRANO DE BERGERAC review by thespyinthestalls

CYRANO DE BERGERAC Noël Coward Theatre ★★★★★ “Inevitably all eyes will be on Adrian Lester, who delivers a faultless and fearless performance” Edmond Rostand’s 1897 play, “Cyrano de Bergerac”, has had many stage adaptations – as well as film, television, radio, opera and musical – but none so layered and emotionally engaging as Simon Evans’ and Debris Stevenson’s interpretation. The comic heart beats furiously throughout with its mix of poetry …

Cyrano de Bergerac – Noël Coward Theatre, London

Writer: Edmond Rostand Adaptors by: Debris Stevenson and Simon Evans Director: Simon Evans The RSC’s Cyrano de Bergerac in this new adaptation by Simon Evans and Debris Stevenson pulses with high-energy delight. The modernised word-play scintillates while at the same time we catch strings of the inventive rhyming which characterised Edmond Rostand’s 1897 original. From [...] The post Cyrano de Bergerac – Noël Coward Theatre, London appeared firs…