A poet,
a soldier, a brawler...
and a
hopeless romantic
A Royal & Derngate, Northampton and Northern Stage
co-production
Cyrano
de Bergerac
Based
on the translation written by Anthony
Burgess
of
the play written by Edmond Rostand
Directed
by Lorne Campbell
Royal & Derngate, Northampton
Friday 3 – Saturday 25 April
Northern Stage, Newcastle
Wednesday 29 April to Saturday 16 May
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Director
Lorne Campbell
with Kylie
Ann Ford
Photo: Mark
Savage
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Royal & Derngate’s Made in Northampton 2015 season starts in April with the
sweeping epic, Cyrano de Bergerac.
Directed by Lorne Campbell, Anthony Burgess’ translation of Edmund Rostand’s classic play is a
co-production with Northern Stage,
and takes to the Royal stage in Northampton from Friday 3 April, transferring to Newcastle from 29 April.
A poet and a soldier, a brawler and an incurable romantic,
Cyrano do Bergerac is a hero – the first among men but totally lost among women.
He is blessed with being brilliant at everything and cursed by having the
biggest nose in all of France.
Cyrano is hopelessly in love with Roxane, his equal in wit
but every bit as beautiful as he is ugly. Afraid of confessing his love, he
becomes a protector and confidante. Christian, a handsome cadet but not the
sharpest sword in the armoury, catches Roxane’s eye and, with his mighty heart
breaking, Cyrano sets about using his unequalled skill as a poet to write
ravishing love letters between the two.
The panache of one of literature’s most famous love triangles
is brought to life in this epic production, staged with passion, bravado, joy
and heartache. Duels are fought, honour defended, villains defeated, and cakes
eaten.
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Lorne
Campbell, Chris Jared and George
Potts
Photo: Mark
Savage
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Cyrano de Bergerac is directed by Northern Stage
Artistic Director Lorne Campbell,
who comments: “Cyrano is scaled up in every way, not just his nose, but his
bravery and his vulnerability, his honour and his self-loathing, his soaring
poetry and his profound inarticulacy. This is what I love about the play, it
takes that ridiculous deluded mess of a person we all carry around inside
ourselves and lets them out onto the stage, bigger and better while also more
absurd and crippled than we could ever be.”
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James Hunter
and Nigel Barrett
with
director Lorne Campbell
Photo: Mark
Savage
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Lorne, whose credits include Carthage Must Be Destroyed and
Distracted at Edinburgh’s
Traverse Theatre, will be working with designer Jean Chan (James and the Giant Peach, Dundee Rep, The
James Plays, National Theatre/National Theatre of Scotland as Associate
Designer). Lighting design is by Tim
Lutkin who recently won an Olivier for Chimerica, with other credits
including The Crucible (Old Vic), Royal & Derngate’s Christmas show Merlin
and The Go-Between, a co-production between Royal & Derngate,
West Yorkshire Playhouse and Derby Theatre. Sound design is by Alasdair Mcrae whose recent work
includes Get Santa! and The Bloody Great Border Ballad Project for
Northern Stage and Gastronauts for the Royal Court.
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Nigel
Barrett and James Hunter
rehearse a
fight scene
Photo: Mark
Savage
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Nigel Barrett whose credits include There Has Possibly Been
An Incident, Royal Exchange Manchester/ SohoTheatre, Richard
III – An Arab Tragedy, for RSC/Bouffes du Nord and The
Passion with Michael Sheen, takes the central role of Cyrano. Nigel is a
member of the Shunt Collective and recently won The Samuel Beckett Theatre
Trust Award 2015 with Louise Mari. Cath
Whitefield (Electra, The Gate, Othello, RSC) appears as Roxane and Chris Jared (All’s Well That Ends
Well, Hamlet, RSC) completes the legendary
love triangle as Christian. The cast also includes John Paul Connolly (Twelfth Night, Richard III, Shakespeare’s Globe,
West End and Broadway) as Le Bret/Ligniere and George Potts (1984, Headlong Theatre; The Silver Tassie,
National Theatre) as De Guiche/Rageneau.
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Cyrano
company movement
rehearsals
with Liv Lorent, Movement Director
Photo: Mark
Savage
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The
Chorus is made up of six emerging performers from Northern Stage’s NORTH scheme
– a 21 week paid training programme to support and develop young actors in the
North East of England. Lorne Campbell explains, “NORTH is part of Northern
Stage’s commitment to creating access and opportunities for working class
actors with exceptional talent, so we’re delighted that they’re working with us
on our big spring production this year.” Kylie Ann Ford, Sisley
Henning, Sian Armstrong, Samantha Bell, James Hunter and Matt Howdon will take
on dozens of ensemble roles.
Creative
Team:
Lorne
Campbell Director
Jean
Chan Designer
Tim
Lutkin Lighting
Designer
Alasdair
Mcrae Sound
Designer
Ros
Steen Voice
Director
Liv
Lorent Movement
Director
Rebecca
Frecknall Assistant
Director
Cast:
Nigel
Barrett Cyrano
de Bergerac
John
Paul Connolly Le
Bret/Ligniere
Chris
Jared Christian
George
Potts De
Guiche/Rageneau
Cath
Whitefield Roxane
Ensemble:
Sian Armstrong Samantha Bell Kylie Ann Ford
Sisley
Henning Matt Howdon James Hunter
Tickets:
Cyrano
de Bergerac can
be seen at Royal & Derngate, Northampton from Friday 3 to
Saturday 25 April and at Northern Stage from Wednesday 29 to Saturday 16
May www.northernstage.co.uk.
Royal
& Derngate, Guildhall Road, Northampton NN1 1DP
Dates: Friday 3 to Saturday
25 April 2015
Times: Evenings 7.45pm (except Tuesday 7 April 7pm)
Matinees
– Thursday and Saturday 2.30pm
No
performances on Sundays
Tickets: £10 to £29*
Box
Office:
01604 624811 or online at www.royalandderngate.co.uk
A
transaction fee of £2.80 applies to telephone and website bookings only. Does
not apply in person, or to Groups and Friends, and is per-transaction, not
per-ticket.
Northern
Stage, Barras Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear NE1 7RH
Dates: Wednesday 29 April to Saturday
16 May 2015
Times: Evenings 7.30pm (except Monday 11 May 6pm)
Matinees
– Saturday 2pm
No
performances on Sundays
Tickets: £24, £19.50 &
£14.50 / Students & U21s £12
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