Cyrano by Virginia Gay after Edmond Rostand

Black Swan State Theatre Company of WA and Perth Festival present a Melbourne Theatre Company Production

Cyrano

By Virginia Gay

After Edmond Rostand

Virginia Gay delivers a joyful gender-flipped retelling of Cyrano de Bergerac. Packed with music wit and aching romance this reimagining of Edmond Rostand’s classic is a delightfully self-aware razor-sharp theatrical rom-com.  

Cyrano is the most interesting person in any room – a wordsmith a charmer a ruthless fighter. She’s fallen for Roxanne: brilliant beautiful Roxanne – a student of life with a penchant for poetry and a way with words just like Cyrano. But Roxanne’s only got eyes for Yan: all-brawn-no-brains Yan who’s dumbstruck around Roxanne. Until suddenly he starts saying the most amazing things. But it’s not Yan writing these perfect love scenes it’s Cyrano...

Cyrano is a love letter to hope; to overcoming loneliness and isolation; to language and desire; to the irrepressible magic of theatre – and to the hot mess that is the human heart.

“A complex moving very funny very clever show.” Stage Whispers

DIRECTOR

Sarah Goodes

CAST INCLUDES

Holly Austin

Virginia Gay

Robin Goldsworthy

Tuuli Narkle

More cast to be announced

MUSICAL DIRECTOR & ADDITIONAL COMPOSITION Xani Kolac

SET CONCEPT & DESIGN Elizabeth Gadsby

COSTUME DESIGNER & SET DESIGN REALISATION Jo Briscoe

LIGHTING DESIGNER Paul Jackson

SOUND DESIGNER Kelly Ryall

ASSOCIATE LIGHTING DESIGNER Tom Willis

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR George Lazaris

ASSISTANT LIGHTING DESIGNER Amelia Baker

APPROXIMATE RUNNING TIME

1 hour 40 minutes (no interval)

RECOMMENDED 15+

Host or Publisher Black Swan State Theatre Company