Theater Review: JamesMcAvoy stars in a 'dazzlingly inventive and entertaining' new version of Rostand's classic love story, 'Cyrano de Bergerac'
. With adapter Martin Crimp, they offer a version of the play that is dynamically remastered for a contemporary audience, particularly a younger one. Rostand's Paris, while still clearly designated as 17th century, is now peopled with the multicultural inhabitants you'd find in a modern Period costume and swords have gone the same way as the famous appendage, to be replaced by contemporary streetwear.
Incidentally, McAvoy's natural Glaswegian accent adds to the "outsider" dialects on display, and the sense of language bristling live and varied from street level. Ragueneau describes the hero as "the all-time crazy genius of the spoken word," giving Cyrano a rock star halo that his appearance enforces: dressed all in black, tight-fitting jeans and jacket, boots, buzz cut and beard.
Alongside the humor and vitality of the language is a pronounced physicality to the performances — soldiers strip off, Cyrano lifts his friends into the air, the courtship at Roxanne's window is transformed into a game of musical chairs.
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