Cyrano
By Barry Kornhauser. Adapted from the play Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand.
Product Code: CB3000
Full-length Play
Comedy | Tragedy
Cast size: 16m., 5w. with doubling, but many roles are gender flexible, easily expanded.
Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available
Awards: The Charlotte B. Chorpenning Playwright Award | Helen Hayes Award
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Synopsis
Cyrano! His wit is as sharp as his sword, the enormity of his talent, intellect and passion matched only by the enormity of his, well, nose. The uniquely endowed protagonist of Cyrano de Bergerac is given a fresh face in this poignant and playful paean to panache, written in rhyming couplets. Romance rules the day in award-winning playwright Barry Kornhauser's portrait of that enduring hero of imperfection and his classic love triangle with the exquisite Roxane and the handsome and earnest, but verbally challenged, Christian. "A remarkable version of … one of the greatest romances of all time. … Daft English poetry coupled with luxuriously lyrical rhyming schemes. … Masterful writing and witty wordplay … and the reward … is one riveting adaptation that is not to be missed." (Metro Weekly)
Notes
Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available
Ron Barnett
c/o Fulton Opera House
P.O. Box 1865
Lancaster, PA 17608
Details
- Status Out of stock
- Type of Show Full-length Play
- Product Code CB3000
- Minimum Cast Size 21
- Pages of Dialogue 203
- Min. Royalty Rate $90.00/perf
- Approx. Run Time 150 min
- Staging Flexible staging.
Categories
- Target Audience High School | College and Adult | Senior Adults
- Performing Group High School | College Theatre | Community Theatre | Professional Theatre
- Genre Comedy | Tragedy
- ISBN(13) 9781583421635
Customer Reviews
For years I've wanted to direct a production [of Cyrano de Bergerac] that captured its wit, poetry and passion. When I read the adaptation by Barry Kornhauser, I knew I had finally found an English version in verse that retained the rich humor and beauty of Rostand's play. … Tremendously literate, tremendously clever … this adaptation has the modernity that you want in a new translation and yet doesn't sacrifice the classicism or the ability to enter into another era.
Media Reviews
"It's as if someone pumped nitrous oxide into the theater, so giggly and woozy are the goings-on. … Kornhauser's free new English adaptation [is] a crazy quilt of rhyme schemes … an intensely moving treatise on not only the alchemic powers of love but also the beauty found in sacrifice" -The Washington Times"A frothy Cyrano invigorated by … the irreverence of a zinger-packed adaptation that displays as much affinity for the wit and wisdom of Milton Berle as for that of Edmond Rostand. … A rhyming version that performs a kind of teasing gavotte on the ears. … Pack(s) surprising punch." -The Washington Post
"Absolutely charming … A standing ovation waiting to happen." -Intelligencer Journal
"Written entirely in verse, Barry Kornhauser's modern translation whips airy comedy with heartbreaking romance. … Breathtaking … beautifully realized … sheer heart-stopping poignancy…Panache!" -Margaret Lawrence, American Theatre Critics Association
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