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Cyrano

Past Show - Season 2023

17 Feb - 05 Mar

Heath Ledger Theatre

Packed with music, wit and aching romance, this reimagining of Edmond Rostand’s classic is a delightfully self-aware, razor-sharp theatrical rom-com.

  • A COMPLEX, MOVING, VERY FUNNY, VERY CLEVER SHOW.

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Cyrano

Black Swan and Perth Festival present a Melbourne Theatre Company production.

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 Melbourne Theatre Company production, presented in association with Perth Festival

Melbourne Theatre Company is a department of the University of Melbourne and is supported by the Australia Council and Creative Victoria.

Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund – an Australian Government initiative.

Script development of Cyrano by Virginia Gay (after Edmond Rostand) has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, Sydney Festival and the NSW Government through Create NSW and the City of Melbourne COVID-19 Arts Grants.

Dates

17 Feb - 05 Mar

Venue

Heath Ledger Theatre

Recommended Age

15+

Duration

1 hour 40 mins (no interval)

Content Warning

Coarse language, sexual references, mature themes, theatrical haze and loud noises.

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Artists

Holly Austin

Cast

Zenya Carmellotti

Cast

Virginia Gay

Writer & Cast

Robin Goldsworthy

Cast

Joel Jackson

Joel Jackson

Cast

Tuuli Narkle

Cast

Sarah Goodes

Director

Xani Kolac

Musical Director & Additional Composition

Elizabeth Gadsby

Set Concept & Design

Jo Briscoe

Costume Designer & Set Design Realisation

Paul Jackson

Paul Jackson

Lighting Designer

Kelly Ryal

Sound Designer

Tom Willis

Associate Lighting Designer

Amelia Baker

Assistant Lighting Designer

Amy Cater

Intimacy Coordinator

Belle Hadiwidjaja

Roller Skate Choreographer

Amy Hume

Voice & Dialect Coach

Zsuzsa Gaynor Mihaly

Stage Manager

Georgia Sealey

Assistant Stage Manager

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