Inside the all-star revivals of “Cyrano de Bergerac” and “American Buffalo,” via TimTeeman
big honker, plays the title role in modern dress on a starkly contemporary set, in which locations like bookshop and battlefield are left to us to summon in our imaginations, which we do thanks to the tabula rasa designed by Soutra Gilmour, who also does the costumes, and lit by Jon Clark, who does many magical things, most stunning of all conveying a battlefield using hundreds of lightbulbs.
This production, a London transfer and a lovely blend of comedy, drama, and metafiction, features the same characters as Edmond Rostand’s classic, but its comedy and drama are both more pointed. There is a lot of exposed flesh. Delts pop. When Roxane finds out the truth about Cyrano and Christian’s scheme to trick her for their own reasons, she is furious in an emphatically profane way. Christian loves her but cannot express it in words.
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