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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.

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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)

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Songs and incidental music are available from the composer:

Ron Barnett
c/o Fulton Opera House
P.O. Box 1865
Lancaster, PA 17608

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Details

Status In 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.

Customer Reviews

This was by far the best translation of Cyrano I found in my research. The language was beautiful and packed full of puns, the suggested doubling made the cast size perfect for my high school, and the show carried all the emotional impact you'd expect. This play really reverberated with my actors and our audience.

Stefanie Ask, Sitka High School, Sitka, Alaska

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.

Michael Kahn, The Shakespeare Theatre

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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Cyrano - Appleton North High School, Appleton, WI

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