![]() ![]() ![]() So, I watched this encore National Theatre Live showing with an open mind. While I always knew of Cyrano de Bergerac all I had previously seen was Roxanne! (There actually was a real Cyrano and Rostand fictionalised the broad outlines of his life.) Cyrano de Bergerac has been revisited over intervening years in various guises on stage, film (notably Steve Martin’s contemporary Roxanne and an Oscar-winning French version with Gerald Depardieu), TV, radio, and even as an opera. ![]() McAvoy has just finished a sellout season at London’s Playhouse Theatre as Cyrano de Bergerac in Martin Crimp’s free adaptation of Edmond Rostand’s 1897 play which was originally written in rhyming couplets. My recent exposure to James McAvoy was in BBC TV’s adaptation of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials where he was last seen heading into a parallel universe. Sound and Composition – Ben and Max RinghamĮnsemble – Vaneeka Dadhria, Mika Johnson, Brinsley Terence (JPr) Anita-Joy Uwajeh (Roxane), Eben Figueiredo (Christian), & James McAvoy (Cyrano) United Kingdom National Theatre Live – Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac: directed for the screen by Tony Grech-Smith at London’s Playhouse Theatre and broadcast to Everyman Cinema, Chelmsford. ![]()
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