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Cyrano
- Tour & Scottish Premiere.
This production forms part of Imaginate's Bank of Scotland Children's
Festival 2004.
See special feature about Festival.
Playwright - adapted into this play by Jo Roets for Blauw Vier
(Belgium) from the verse drama by Edmund Rostand.
Translation - Audrey Van Tuyckom.
Director - Gill Robertson.
Assistant Director - Heather Fulton.
Set Designer - Karen Tennent.
Costume Designer -Alison Brown.
Lighting Designer - Paul Sorley.
Fight Director - Carter Ferguson.
Company - Catherine Wheels Theatre Company Email
in association with Brunton Theatre Musselburgh .
Cast - here .
2004 Tour Dates and Times - here .
Seen to review at Brunton Theatre Musselburgh on 6 May 2004.
Run Time - 70 mins no Interval .
Reviewer - Thelma Good.
Humourous and sad about emotions.
Cyrano - Catherine Wheels Production.
Roxanne - Veronica Leer, Cyrano - Ronnie Simon and Christian - Jordan
Young.
© Eamonn McGoldrick 2004.
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It's a story of love and soldiers, of not telling the person you love
until it's really too late. The original play had a cast of over 75 actors,
Catherine Wheels performs, with three actors, a newly translated version
with some engaging ryhmes and, like Cyrano's large nose, it grabs your
attention.
Veronica Leer is a gorgeous Roxanne, shyly mischevious, on the
brink of womanhood. She has several suitors, the simple Christian and
the bullying De Guiche - and also Cyrano whose feelings towards her she
does not know. Jordan Young cuts a suitable attractive dash as
Christian though his De Guiche could be a smigin more harsh. As Cyrano
Ronnie Simon reveals his humanity, his complex personality accomplished
with words, liked by many but unable to believe anyone could love him.
The costumes by Alison Brown and flexible set with wheel-about sub-sets
creating windows and shops by Karen Tennant really fit the production's
approach. It's one where we firstly encounter the actors before they find
their roles in the beribboned boxes place at the front of the stage, and
where costume changes happen so we are aware of them. The style which
adds to the feeling of discovery and engagement as we let ourselves believe
in the scenes before us and Dave Trouton's music adds romance often in
the shape of well know pop songs.
Although it's largely about love, with a heart skewered by a pen and bound
by a ribbon bearing the word True Love tattooed on sets, the stage and
costumes, it is a tale for boys and girls because it is humourous and
sad about emotions. Cyrano is a tough older solidier, mighty with the
sword as well as the pen, Christian is a new recruit who Cyrano decides
he'll help woo Roxanne. Their collective fates really collide when Roxanne
seeks her newly married husband on the battlefield De Guiche has ripped
him away to.
Some might question the relevance of such an ancient tale to children
in 2004 but once they've seen Catherine Wheels' production of Jo Roets'
version of Cyrano the answer will be clear. It's a great story because
we can all be as foolish and as loving as the man with the large nose.
© Thelma Good 6 May 2004. - Published on EdinburghGuide.com
Edinburgh Guide Reviews of this multi-award winning company productions
The
Snow Baby in 2003, The
Story of the Little Gentleman in 2003 and Lifeboat
in 2002.
The Story of the Little Gentleman. Nominated for the 2003 TMA Best Show
for Children & Young People. Touring UK in 2004 , Sept to Oct. For
ages 4+.
Lifeboat. A revival of the 2002 winner of the Barclays Theatre Award
- Best Show for Children & Young People, by Nicola McCartney. Touring
Ireland & Canada, May to June 2004. For ages 10+.
Cast: Cyrano de Bergerac - Ronnie Simon, Roxanne
- Veronica Leer and Christian de Neuvillette - Jordan Young.
2004 Tour Details of Catherine Wheels' production
of Cyrano.
Tour begins
6 May at 10am & 1.45pm, 7 May 10am, 8 May 2pm at Musselburgh Brunton
Theatre 0131 665 2240.
12 May at 2pm Cumbernauld Theatre 01236 732 887.
15 May at 2pm East Kilbride Arts Centre 01355 261 000.
18 May at 7pm Inverness Eden Court Theatre 01463 234 234.
20 May at 2pm & 7.30pm Peebles Eastgate Arts Centre 01721 725 777.
At Bank of Scotland Children's International Theatre Festival on
25 - 27 May 25/26 May 12.15pm & 7pm, 27 May at 12.15 Edinburgh Traverse
Theatre 0131 228 1404.
1 - 2 June 1 June 7.30pm; 2 June 1.45pm Glasgow Tron Theatre 0141 552
4267.
4 June at 7.30pm Stranraer Ryan Centre 01776 703 535.
5 June at 7.30pm Melrose The Wynd Theatre 01896 820 028.
6 June at 3pm Stirling Macrobert 01786 466 666.
9 June at 1.30pm Dunfermline Carnegie Hall 01383 314 000.
11 June at 1.30pm & 7pm Cambridge Drama Centre 01223 578 000.
14 June Isle of Mull 01688 302 828.
15 June at 8pm Oban Corran Halls 01631 567 333.
17 June at 10.15am Aberdeen The Lemon Tree 01224 642 230.
19 June at 6pm Livingston Howden Park Centre 01506 433 634.
Tour Ends.
Theatre Editor, Thelma Good's e-mail is
thelma@edinburghguide.com
Although every effort has been taken to ensure the accuracy of the
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