Cyrano is the most interesting person in any room – a wordsmith, a charmer. She works twice as hard and runs twice as fast as the pretty boys, because she’s deeply ashamed of something about herself.
Enter Roxanne: brilliant and beautiful, with a penchant for poetry and a way with words, just like Cyrano. But Roxanne only has eyes for Yan: hot, manly Yan, who is dumbstruck around Roxanne. (Probably shy, right?) Until suddenly he starts saying the most amazing things. But it’s not Yan writing these perfect love scenes, it’s Cyrano…
A joyous, gender-flipped retelling of Edmond Rostand’s classic play, Cyrano is a love letter to hope; to language and desire; to the lo-fi magic of theatre.
‘Gay’s fleet script has a swoony yet muscular and consistently meta-theatrical wit… brilliant and poignant… a giddy and sensitive celebration of love; a feel-good romp full of deep pleasures that seem to reach beyond the space in which we experience them… What a treat’ —The Times
‘Dazzlingly clever… witty, knowing, satirical and heartfelt all at once’ —Financial Times
‘Seriously sexy and immensely uplifting … This is theatre at its most happy-making’ —The Stage
