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Cyrano, Bristol Old Vic
Outstanding new version of a tragi-comic classic
A nose for love: Cyrano (Tristan Sturrock) with Roxane (Sara Powell)
[Geraint Lewis]
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NUMEROUS versions of Edmond Rostand’s 1897 play about the hot-blooded 17th-century swordsman, poet and philosopher, cursed with a nose of excessive proportions, have filled hours of stage and film time.
This latest version by Bristol Old Vic is a fun-filled, triumphant addition.
With a nod to commedia dell’arte, Peter Oswald’s translation and Tom Morris’s direction inject a lightness of touch, while contemporary references shift the production away from any specific time period.
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