Cyrano de Bergerac

Fri Nov 23, 2018 to
Sun Jan 27, 2019

Time: 20:30 (Sun:18:00)

Location

THOC Theater
9 Gregori Afxentiou
Nicosia, Nicosia 1096

THOC
Phone: 77772717

Description

THOC presents "Cyrano de Bergerac", a play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand. Although there was a real Cyrano de Bergerac, the play is a fictionalisation following the broad outlines of his life.

The entire play is written in verse, in rhyming couplets of twelve syllables per line, very close to the classical alexandrine form, but the verses sometimes lack a caesura. It is also meticulously researched, down to the names of the members of the Académie française and the dames précieuses glimpsed before the performance in the first scene.

Plot:
Hercule Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac, a cadet (nobleman serving as a soldier) in the French Army, is a brash, strong-willed man of many talents. In addition to being a remarkable duelist, he is a gifted, joyful poet and is also a musician. However, he has an extremely large nose, which causes him to doubt himself. This doubt prevents him from expressing his love for his distant cousin, the beautiful and intellectual Roxane, as he believes that his ugliness would prevent him the "dream of being loved by even an ugly woman."

Directed by Achilleas Gramatikopoulos

(in Greek)