Financial Times
"Playful, poignant, profound. Adrian Lester is absolutely magnetic as Cyrano - thunderously charismatic with impeccable comic timing."
Poet. Soldier. Philosopher. Cyrano de Bergerac burns with brilliance - and burns with longing. Fiercely funny and devastatingly romantic, Cyrano lives by his words and his sword. Secretly in love with his cousin Roxane, he watches from the shadows as she falls for another man. Christian is handsome but hopeless with words. There is only one person who can help him. And helping Christian may be the only way Cyrano can love Roxane at all.
Following a sold-out, critically acclaimed run at the RSC’s Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, this exhilarating production transfers to the West End for a strictly limited season. Edmond Rostand’s immortal 1897 comedy - the play that introduced the word ‘panache’ to the English language - has been given a bold new life by director Simon Evans (BBC’s Staged) and co-adaptor Debris Stevenson (Poet in Da Corner, Royal Court), who bring contemporary poetic language to a story that remains as sharp and heartbreaking as it ever was.
Olivier Award-winner Adrian Lester - celebrated for his Othello and Henry V at the National Theatre, and Hustle and Riviera on screen - makes his RSC debut as Cyrano, in a performance critics have called “absolutely magnetic” and “thunderously charismatic”. Susannah Fielding plays Roxane and Levi Brown is Christian, joined by Scott Handy as the scheming Comte de Guiche and Christian Patterson as the irresistible Ragueneau, with live actor-musicians throughout. Book your tickets now.
