![]() This is not that.Ĭyrano de Bergerac has been reimagined here as a poetry slam with Martin Crimp’s irreverent adaptation transforming the rhythms of Rostand’s French verse into contemporary spoken word. Lloyd, who directed a star-studded New York production of Betrayal in 2019, is no stranger to Edmond Rostand’s late 19th-century play, having staged a traditional translation in period dress on Broadway in 2012. production that was originally scheduled to premiere at BAM in 2020. Played with glorious aliveness and vast emotional intelligence by Evelyn Miller, this Roxane is the crowning reason to see Jamie Lloyd’s inventive but sometimes stagnant reimagining of Cyrano de Bergerac, a transfer of a U.K. Bandied about by the various buffoons who desire her, she remains frustrated by the mores of 1640s France that ensure her underappreciation: “I am so, so bored with not being taken seriously by men,” she sighs, but it’s clear how seriously she takes herself. ![]() ![]() Everyone adores Roxane-for her beauty, at first glance, but then for her ferocious intellect. ![]()
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