Edmond Rostand's

Cyrano de Bergerac

Freely adapted by Martin Crimp

Writer 
Edmond Rostand
Freely adapted by 
Martin Crimp

Director
Emma Baggott

Location
The Sainsbury Theatre 

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Relaxed Performance Guide

Dates
Monday 10 June, 7:00pm
Tuesday 11 June, 7:00pm
Wednesday 12 June, 7:00pm
Thursday 13 June, 2:00pm*
Thursday 13 June, 7:00pm

The running time is approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes (plus an interval).

*This will be a relaxed performance. Find out more.

About the show

A genius with language, Cyrano secretly loves the radiant Roxane, but she loves the beautiful but inarticulate Christian. Convinced of his own ugliness, Cyrano offers to act as go-between, setting in motion a poignant and often hilarious love triangle in which each character is torn between the lure of physical attraction and the seductive power of words.

Cyrano de Bergerac in this adaptation was first performed at the Playhouse Theatre, London on 27 November 2019.

This amateur production of “Cyrano de Bergerac (Crimp)” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Samuel French Ltd. www.concordtheatricals.co.uk  

Emma is a freelance theatre director. She trained at Goldsmiths, University of London and at the Young Vic. Emma has a passion for new work and predominantly directs new plays. She believes we have a responsibility to contribute to the world we inhabit and address the state of society we occupy. 

Recent Directing includes productions for LAMDA, Queens Theatre Hornchurch, the Royal Shakespeare Company and The Bunker. Emma has worked as Associate / Assistant Director at the Royal Shakespeare Company, Headlong, Young Vic, Theatre Royal Stratford East, New Diorama, Salisbury Playhouse, The Print Room, St James’ Theatre, The Pleasance and in the West End at Theatre Royal Haymarket with John Caird.

Emma is an associate artist at National Youth Theatre and a mentor director for National Theatre Connections. She is a guest director at LAMDA, RWCMD and Theatre Academy London. Emma also facilitates regular workshops for organisations such as National Theatre, Young Vic Theatre, RTYDS, NYT, Arts Ed, University of Kent, Goldsmiths College, and Theatre Academy London. Emma taught and directed at The Brit School for six years.  Emma teaches because she is passionate about empowering artists from all walks of life to find and hone their voice.

Edmond Rostand was born in Marseille into a wealthy and cultured Provençal family. His father was an economist and a poet. Rostand studied literature, history, and philosophy at the Collège Stanislas in Paris. Rostand abandoned his law studies in 1890 when his first book of poems appeared. At the age of 29, Rostand wrote his most successful and well-known play, Cyrano de Bergerac. When Cyrano was performed, the enthusiasm at the premiere became unexpected—people wept and it is told that the author was pelted with ladies' gloves and fans. Rostand revitalized the old romantic drama in verse. When naturalism was the major movement in literature, Rostand took up old themes and followed the tradition of Victor Hugo. Edmond Rostand died of pneumonia in Paris on December 2, 1918.

Martin Crimp was born in 1956. His play Attempts on Her Life (1997) established his international reputation. His other work for theatre includes Not One of These People, When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other, Men Asleep, The Rest Will be Familiar to You from Cinema, In the Republic of Happiness, Play House, The City, Fewer Emergencies, Cruel and Tender, The Country, The Treatment, Getting Attention, No One Sees the Video, Play with Repeats, Dealing with Clair and Definitely the Bahamas. He is also the author of three texts, Into the Little Hill, Written on Skin and Lessons in Love and Violence, for operas by George Benjamin. His many translations of French plays include works by Genet, Ionesco, Koltès, Marivaux and Molière. Writing for Nothing, a collection of fiction, short plays and texts for opera, was published by Faber & Faber in 2019.

Contains strong language, swearing, gunfire, injury and blood. References to death and war. 

Creative Team 

* LAMDA staff member or visiting artist

Director
Emma Baggott*

Set and Costume Designer 
Elin Steele*

Lighting Designer 
Lucía Sánchez Roldán*

Sound Designer 
Poppy Morley 

Movement Director 
Adi Gortler*

Voice Director 
Victoria Woodward*

Assistant Director
Irina Mikheeva

Movement and Intimacy Director
Adi Gortler*

Fight Director
Sam Lyon-Behan*

Costume Supervisor
Tabitha Stock*

Cast 

Christian
Callum Alexander-Smith

Ligniere
Roman Asde

De Guiche
Josh Beckman

Marie-Louise
Elle Davies

Valvert
Alex Farrell

Leila Ragueneau
Ro Florence

Usher
Daisy Tallulah Hargreaves

Cyrano
Macauley Keeper

Denise
Geri McNamara

Roxanne 
Esther Ming Li

Woman
Vigs Otite

Armand
Romario Splatt

Le Bret
Will Steadman

Production Team 

Stage Manager
Anya Williams 

Deputy Stage Manager 
Stephanie Leeson

Production Managers
Meghan Sorohan*
Jen Garland 

Production Lx
Simon Fleming

Deputy Lx/Programmer
Jacob Eckardt 

Production Sound Engineer 
Ash Orhan-Pennell

Production Carpenter
Peter Johnston

Lighting Technicians 
​​​Abigail Brophy
Velia De Nicola
Holly Higgs
Alexander Hoppe
Danielle Small
Heather Trevelyan

Sound Assistants
Charlie Henley-Castleden
Angelika Marr
Patrick McAneny
Chloe Wood

Construction Crew
Jay Cheung
James Knight
Megan Parker