Cyrano

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+