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Apr 14, 2022 · Cyrano de Bergerac has been reimagined here as a poetry slam with Martin Crimp’s irreverent adaptation transforming the rhythms of Rostand’s French verse into contemporary spoken word. Cyrano’s famous opening verbal attack on the sneering aristocrat Valvert (Nari Blair-Mangat) proceeds with the pulsating venom of a diss track: “Look he ...
Dec 8, 2019 · Director Jamie Lloyd and adapter Martin Crimp have updated and mutated Edmond Rostand’s 1897 verse drama about a soldier-poet with an enormous nose into a stripped-back, street-style rap battle.
Mar 27, 2022 · IT is testament to the brilliance of Cyrano de Bergerac – French dramatist Edmond Rostand’s famous 1897 play about the warrior poet with the super-sized nose – that it has proved to be amenable to such a range of adaptations.
Feb 17, 2022 · But the intervening years have deepened the shadows in the staging and the preoccupation with loneliness, loss and communication. Lloyd wrestles Edmond Rostand’s 1897 verse drama away from...
Apr 14, 2022 · James McAvoy and the Jamie Lloyd Company reinvent Edmond Rostand’s nosey Frenchman Cyrano de Bergerac for the 21st century.
Dec 9, 2019 · Actor James McAvoy is much in demand: in the BBC's His Dark Materials he is busy saving a parallel world, while in the poetic universe of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac he is tasked with soothing more than one aching heart.
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Lloyd and writer Martin Crimp update Edmond Rostand’s verse drama, written in 1897 and set in 1640, into a rap-inflected urban romantic tragedy. It’s acted with microphones under stark lighting...
