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Contents:

• CYRANO REVIEW – VIRGIA GAY SH THIS BOLD, QUEER REIMAGG
• VIRGIA GAY ON THE CHALLENGE OF QUEERG CYRANO: ‘I DON’T WANT A TRAGEDY RIGHT NOW’
• IS VIRGIA GAY MARRIED? VIRGIA GAY AGE, NET WORTH AND MORE
• VIRGIA GAY: I HAVE NO TERT GETTG MARRIED UNTIL WE HAVE MARRIAGE EQUALY
• ‘SHE WAS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT’: ACTOR VIRGIA GAY ON HER MOTHER’S VALUABLE ADVICE
• VIRGIA GAY WIKI BGRAPHY, AGE, HEIGHT, HBAND, NET WORTH, FAY
• ALL SATS STAR VIRGIA GAY BASHED BY SPECTED KILLERS
• ANALYSISVIRGIA GAY'S CYRANO ULDN'T BE STOPPED BY TWO LOCKDOWNS AND HAS A MSAGE FOR OUR TIM
• HELLISH: COVID-19 AND A BROKEN HEART FUEL VIRGIA GAY’S NEW-LOOK CYRANO

CYRANO REVIEW – VIRGIA GAY SH THIS BOLD, QUEER REIMAGG

Melbourne Theatre Company’s queered versn of this classic, wrten by and starrg the charismatic Virgia Gay (Calamy Jane), was set to premiere 2021, but was scuppered by a snap lockdown announced jt three hours before openg night. This eratn of Cyrano is built brick by brick real time by a Greek chos of unnamed supportg characters (Holly At, Milo Hartill and Rob Goldsworthy), who assist Gay’s Cyrano cidg how she wants to realise her own versn of events. Gay’s genr-flipped remake clus no such physil tra, but ’s a strange cisn to keep referenc to – one monologue has her riffg madly on big nose jok.

The play remas a edy of errors but, aga wh Gay’s ntemporary polics, more agency is given to the characters that were tradnally ed as props. But due to the fluctuatns language and non-era-specific stumg (cludg athleisurewear and roller skat for Roxanne’s grand entrance), n be nfg knowg exactly when this play is supposed to be set – has a morn spir, but seems to go back and forth Jabbour as Yan and Gay as Cyrano. This bizarre choice is probably the productn’s biggt misstep, but do build some rapport wh the past newsletter promotnafter newsletter promotnGay’s Cyrano is more rom than tragedy, buildg up to a sequence which the protagonist vis her way to apologise, and then get the girl.

VIRGIA GAY ON THE CHALLENGE OF QUEERG CYRANO: ‘I DON’T WANT A TRAGEDY RIGHT NOW’

It’s also somethg Virgia Gay has spas, an actor who shot to natnal fame televisn shows such as All Sats and Wners & Losers, but whose pth of talent is bt experienced live on stage.

“When you do whout a nose, ” Gay explas, “ be abundantly clear that this is the most tertg person on stage, but they have cid that, for some reason, they are not worthy of love” urse, when you st a woman the role, that “some reason” tak on a distctly queer ronance.

Stg the dience for the first half of the play, Gay thought: “I have to play this role. ”Virgia Gay on playg Cyrano: ‘When you do whout a nose, be abundantly clear that this is the most tertg person on stage. I won’t be a part of a story that says, ‘kill your gays’.

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” Which is not to say that gay characters n’t partake the tharsis that om high tragedy; Gay simply don’t thk that’s what dienc want the midst of a global crisis. ” So Gay did, surg every adaptatn (cludg unofficial film versns such as Roxanne and The Tth About Cats and Dogs) for the aspects of the story she wanted to foreground. “The first three acts of Cyrano are prototypil rom-, ” Gay says.

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“If you have a femist and a queer woman wrg this story, and wrg about and for a Roxane who is gasl, tfished and manipulated by another woman, ” Gay extrapolat, “then be very difficult” answer was to bolster and empower the role of Roxane, so that she be a te equal to Cyrano, able to parry and thst the war of ws. Goos believ the same will happen wh Gay.

And Melbourne’s tentative, almost reticent return to the theatre is echoed the stcture of Gay’s adaptatn: “Six actors return to the theatre and try to remember how to put on a show, bate the rponsibili of tellg this story. ”Gay wrote her Cyrano while sufferg om Covid Los Angel – “a tly rotten 14 days of tense pa” – and the rult is a work fed wh the sensatn of spend longg, but also of hope fulfilled.

19pmThis wrap of shows around Melbourne clus Virgia Gay’s imagative adaptatn of a classic, a double bill of morn Amerin opera, an imaged enunter between Mart Luther Kg Jr.

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THEATRECyrano ★★½Virgia Gay after Edmond Rostand, MTC, until October 29Awash wh low edy and the irreprsible spir of amatr theatre, Virgia Gay’s ee adaptatn of Cyrano Bergerac will make you lgh and snort and snigger, even as stumbl at transfigurg the ridiculo to the Narkle and Virgia Gay the Melbourne Theatre Company productn of Jeff BbyOn paper, the show is a hot ticket. No one who saw Gay Calamy Jane uld doubt her geni for edy, and there was every reason to thk she’d brg the same quick-off-the-draw w, heightened timacy, and razor-sharp timg to Rostand’s unorthodox hero. Unfortunately, Gay isn’t as seasoned a wrer as she is a performer, and while you will, most certaly, lgh at this adaptatn – Gay is the kd of actor who uld make the phone book funny – you may sometim wonr whether you trouble don’t lie queerg Cyrano or reversg the character’s genr, but the lip-service Gay’s script pays to poetry.

Here, there is an almost perverse aversn to the magic of words – a bumblg meta-theatril ame tak over; high rhetoric is chewed favour of humour that plays to the lowt mon are patiently explaed by Cyrano (Gay) and her merry chos of am-dram clowns (Milo Hartill, Rob Goldsworthy and Holly At), and they’re sometim enacted as if they were a gdgg afterthought, a way that feels patronisg to dienc and disrpectful to the artistry of the of which is to ny the ensemble creat lively and divertg moments, om jnty chos numbers to the silly ventriloquism of Cyrano woog on behalf of Cl Jabbour’s ultimate himbo, although you’ll have to wa through dick jok, and other forlorn attempts at w, to get to them.

A scene om Cyrano at Melbourne Theatre Jeff BbyIt’s a shame, too, for anyone (myself clud) who would leap at the chance to see Gay perform any of Rostand’s sweepg speech the plat translatn. Or ed what drove Gay to rort to so much low-hangg edic u, when Cyrano spurns the ia of g language to “be a buffoon/ the vile hope of teasg out a se/ on some ld face. Virgia Gay: I have no tert gettg married until we have marriage equalyBy Jane RocOctober 13, 2017 — 2.

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