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+